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Chapter 26

Author: Kasie
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Kade’s POV

The silhouette stepped out of the light, not through it but out of it.

The vertical beam at the coastline did not flicker or destabilize when the figure crossed its boundary. It remained steady, condensed, piercing sky and sea like a pillar anchoring two realms together.

The being that emerged was nothing like the entities we had just forced back.

No overlapping distortions.

No misaligned layers.

No fractured light.

It was whole and defined.

Contained within a single outline that did
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