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Chapter 65_She's Gone

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Neris's POV

"There's no body."

Lucien's voice is tight as he examines the tent's interior with careful, methodical precision, stepping around the blood pooled across the ground without disturbing what might be evidence.

"That's blood everywhere," I say, my voice unsteady despite every effort to hold myself together. "How is there no body?"

"That's precisely the point." He crouches near the largest pool, studying its pattern with the same analytical focus he brings to every crisis, even one this
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