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CHAPTER 39: The Cell

作者: Evve
last update 公開日: 2026-02-26 00:08:55

POV: Neoma

Darkness was familiar.

I was born in the shadow of the Shattered Moon. I was raised in the lightless tunnels of the Dregs, where the sun was a rumor and electricity was a god you prayed to. I knew the dark. I knew its weight. Its smell—damp earth and decay. Its texture—heavy and slick on the skin.

But this darkness was different. It had no exit.

They had thrown me in hours ago—or maybe days. Time didn't exist here. There was only the wet, slick stone of the floor and the heavy iron d
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