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Chapter 13

Author: Taiwo
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-04-21 14:03:45

CHAPTER 13: THE OFFER

The train station stinks of rust and old rain.

I stand on the platform. Kael is ten steps behind, in the shadow of a collapsed roof beam. Visible if you look. Invisible if you don't. The compromise we struck after forty minutes of argument.

"I go alone to the meeting point," I said. "You hang back. Close enough to hear me scream."

"You will not scream," he said. "You will fight. And I will already be moving."

He was right. I don't scream anymore. I fight. Or I die. There i
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