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Chapter 93: Long overdue promise

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“Have you found Emile?” Escuro asked still looking into the fire. Escuridade shook her head, her raven hair catching the orange light of the embers. “No. our scouts have not reported any sightings of Mar’s daughter. We have combed through the residential districts and the docks, but nothing.” She leaned her back against the stone railing, looking out over the burning skyline of Cidade dos escravos. The victory felt hollow without knowing where the girl was. &ldqu

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    “My father,” Emile repeated, the words sounding foreign on her tongue. Her fingers tightened on Salvaxe’s arm, her knuckles turning white. A single tear traced a path through the grime on her cheek, leaving a clean streak behind. “He is still looking?” she asked, her voice cracking. “After all this time?” she looked up at the ceiling, her eyes swimming with a sudden, overwhelming clarity that made Escuridade’s breath catch. For the first time since they had found her, the girl did not look like a broken thing. “Yes, we will contact him as soon as we can,” Salvaxe said and they continued walking. “We are close to ending all of this.” The walk through the dungeon felt longer than it should have.The air was still thick with cloying, sweet scent of the white powder, and Escuridade kept her eyes scanning the shadows of the corridor, her hand resting near the silver amulet at her throat. Emile moved like a gho

  • Where Ashes and Oaths Collide   Chapter 98: Fighting For Us

    Escuridade quickly unlocked the cell, the lock clicked open with a sharp, metallic sound that seemed to echo through the entire corridor. She did not hesitate, her fingers working the mechanism with a desperate efficiency born of pure adrenaline. Salvaxe stepped into the cell, his movements cautious, as if the very air inside might shatter. He knelt before Emile, his hand settling on her frail shoulder with a tenderness that made Escuridade turn her head away for a moment. Emile flinched at the touch. Her while body jolted, a reflexive spasm of terror that had been etched into her muscles over ten years of isolation. But as her eyes– now clearer, the amber warmth returning to them– settled on Salvaxe’s face, the tension drained out of her in a single, shuddering exhale.“You,” Emile whispered, her voice stronger now, though still fragile as spun glass. She reached out, her thin fingers trembling as they brushed against Salvaxe’s cheek. Her

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    Every heartbeat brought the chaos nearer. A few isolated clashes remained, each one distinct now instead of blending into the storm that had come before. One. A pause. Another. A final, powerful impact echoed through the stone passage, followed by the unmistakable crash of armoured weight collapsing onto the floor. After that come only breathing. Slow. Measured. One set of footsteps remained standing. The victor walked closer at an unhurried pace, boots crunching over scattered debris. Salvaxe waited for death. Then he felt a hand on his shoulder. Slowly he turned, so he is on his back. It took him a while to recognise the man. His hair was darker, his eyes red. There was an intensity about him. “Salvaxe, my old friend. I finally found you again,” he said, taking something out of his pocket.…Escuridade stares at the vial of black powder in his hand, then at the small, jagged cut on his finger. The silence that followed was heavy, pressing against her chest l

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    He heard the footsteps long before he saw the torchlight. Heavy boots. Four men. The scrape of keys. Metal groaned as the lock turned. The cell door swung inward a rusty shriek. “Here is another one,” a gruff voice muttered. The torchlight spilled across the floor until it warmed the toes of his boots. A guard stepped in from of him, his face little more than a beard wrapped around a sneer. Hands seized his arms. He felt every finger. That was the curse’s greatest cruelty. It denied movement, not sensation. His shoulders jerked painfully as the guards hauled him forward. His legs remained locked exactly as they had been when the spell struck him, forcing his entire rigid body to tilt.For one dreadful instant he thought they would simply let him smash face-first into the floor. Instead, they lifted him, not carefully, like moving a wardrobe. His back struck the iron doorframe on the way out with a clang that rattled through his bones. “What the wall, idiot,” one

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  • Where Ashes and Oaths Collide   Chapter 94: The Search Continued

    “Go,” Escuro said softly, releasing her. “We will have plenty of time after everything is done.” Escuridade lingered for a moment, her hand still warm where he had held it. She wanted to argue, to pull him back into the safety of their embrace, but she knew that look in his eyes. It was the look of a man who had already moved on to the next problem, the next task, the next piece of the puzzle. “Do not stay up here too long,” she said, her voice steady despite the tug of reluctance. “The wind is picking up, and you need sleep.” She stepped back from the railing, her tattered robes catching the breeze. She did not look back as she began her descent down the stone stairs, her mind already shifting gears. The lower district. The cellars. The hidden alcoves where familied hid during the purge. She would start there.Escuridade went to the dungeon deep beneath the docks, where sunlight had never reached and time seemed to erode

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    Luz froze mid-turn, his crimson eyes locking onto her form in the midnight blue fabric. The fabric clung to her curves in a way that sent a jolt of heat through him, awakening parts of himself he had though dead long ago. His breath caught in his throat. “I– of course,” he managed, his voice drop

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    Luz’s grip on Amelia’s red hair tightened slightly, both painfully but demanding obedience. The black vein on his neck pulsed furiously as the Darkness within him sensed the victory– this human soul willingly surrendering herself. “You will sleep in my quarters and eat at my table. Every Corrompi

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