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Chapter Twenty-Four – The Third Voice

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The new howl sent a tremor through the stones, lower than any Mira had heard before, it was ancient, heavy, almost... intelligent. This wasn't the wild hunger of L-20 or the cold calculation of L-22. This was something older.

Mira tightened her grip on Echo and Seventeen. “Everyone move. Now.”

Ash scanned the crimson-lit ruins, his voice tense. “We don’t know what’s coming.”

Grey moved beside Mira, his voice steady but low. “And we’re not going to wait to find out.”

Behind them, L-20 snarled, its body convulsing in spasms of uncontrolled mutation. Sparks of corrupted magic danced across its flesh as if its own unstable creation was beginning to reject itself.

But L-22 stood motionless, her silver eyes tracking Mira’s every move. “Running will not save you. None of you were meant to survive this long.”

Mira’s wolf raged beneath her skin. “Yet here we are.”

With a signal nod, the group bolted into the southern tree line, dodging between ancient roots and fallen branches. The map pulsed
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