After an eternity, the tension in Thane’s body shifted. He pulled back just an inch, his forehead leaving hers. The sudden absence of that contact made her feel cold. His hands, which had been braced against the rock on either side of her, slid down to her arms, his grip firm and steadying. He tilted his head, listening. The alley was now silent, save for the distant, fading echo of a final, despairing call of her name.“They’re gone,” he murmured, his voice a low, rough scrape in the quiet. “All of them.”“For now,” Elira replied. The words left her lips as a shaky exhale, the image of Kael’s worried face flashing in her mind, a sharp pang of guilt following it.He led her out of the fissure. The alley was empty, the only evidence of the struggle a cloud of dust slowly settling like fine, grey snow. Without a word, he took her hand, his calloused fingers wrapping around hers. They moved as one shadow, slipping from the deep gloom of one doorway to the next, their footsteps silent on t
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