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Chapter 119: The Echo and the Anchor

Author: Drea Drayne
last update publish date: 2026-07-27 07:20:40

The fire burned for three days. It was a supernatural conflagration, the ironwood consuming the petrified form of Vorlag not with smoke and ash, but with a pure, cleansing light. The stone did not crack or crumble; it glowed from within, a furnace of trapped memory and regret, slowly, surely, transmuting into something else. The entire keep watched in silent, somber vigil, a kingdom holding its breath.

On the dawn of the fourth day, the flames died, not fading, but retracting, as if being sucke
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