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CHAPTER SIXTY NINE: Afraid?

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For a moment, the sigils pulsed. Then faded.

I drew back, my breath hitched . The silence that followed felt heavier.

Somewhere beyond the corridor, footsteps echoed again but lighter this time, yet measured. Christabel voice, sharp and close sang across the walls.

“Arya,” she said from the darkness behind her, the softness gone now, stripped to suspicion. “Why are you really here?”

The question hung like a blade between us.

I turned slowly, the moonlight catching the pal
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