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The Choice and the Hunger

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Kael

The palace hadn’t stopped shaking.

Even after the tremors faded, the walls still hummed — not with fear, but with recognition.

Like they remembered something old.

Something divine.

Something dangerous.

Malen arrived at dawn, his cloak streaked with soot, his eyes too bright for comfort.

He bowed low before speaking.

“It’s begun.”

I didn’t need to ask what he meant.

The golden scar across the horizon still burned from the night before — a wound in the sky that refused to fade.

Ri
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