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The Margin's Edge

Author: Jude Obetta
last update publish date: 2026-08-25 17:12:00

The ground beneath us did not crumble into dust; it flattened into pure, blinding parchment.

The deep green hills of the unscripted world, the soft blue skies, and the towering thirty-mile silhouette of the titan dissolved into translucent sheets of black text and stark margins.

I looked down at Killian. The dark-gold warmth of his skin was bleeding outward into dark streams of wet ink, his heavy iron boots morphing into dense, blocky paragraphs that read: His heels remained planted upon the bl
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