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CHAPTER 44: THE TEMPERED HEART
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2026-08-16 23:06:28ELARA'S POV
The lingering stench of scorched iron and burnt cedar hung heavy over the ruined courtyard long after Vespera’s crimson embers had dissolved into the sky. Work began immediately. Under Kaelen’s grim, unyielding direction, the Obsidian Guard set to work clearing the white-hot slag of the broken gates, throwing up temporary barricades of heavy granite and obsidian-tipped stakes across the South Pass. But no amount of physical stone could block the suff
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