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Chapter 179: Pull it out
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2026-10-08 14:00:08“You want me to pull it out?” Luz repeated, his voice flat. He knelt beside them, the weight of his bronze armour settling heavily. He did not look at Emile’s face– he looked at the arrow. The shaft was notched deep into the abdomen, the wood stained dark with blood. “If I pull it, he bleeds more,” he said, his bronze gauntleted hand hovering near the wound. “If I leave it, it festers. Who shot him?” Emile took a bandage out of the satchel. &ldq
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Where Ashes and Oaths Collide Chapter 179: Pull it out
“You want me to pull it out?” Luz repeated, his voice flat. He knelt beside them, the weight of his bronze armour settling heavily. He did not look at Emile’s face– he looked at the arrow. The shaft was notched deep into the abdomen, the wood stained dark with blood. “If I pull it, he bleeds more,” he said, his bronze gauntleted hand hovering near the wound. “If I leave it, it festers. Who shot him?” Emile took a bandage out of the satchel. “The golden archer,” Emile said simply. “That is what the bandages are for. Not time for fire.”“Move,” he said to Emile, not unkindly, but with the absolute authority of a commander. He did not wait for her to comply. He reached out, his gauntleted hand gripping the shaft of the arrow just above the entry wound. “This is going to hurt,” he warned Salvaxe, though the man was already drifting in and out of consciousness. Luz’s fingers tight
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