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"The song is gone," Dean Wason grumbled, his voice low, gravelly. "I don't feel it. I don't hear Leiran."His men stood around him in a wordless, grim circle. Paul Wason knelt beside him, his hand on the shoulder of his brother. "Dean, what does it mean? What occurred?""It means they're gone," Dean Wason replied, his eyes now on the ground, a terrible, icy conviction spreading through him. "None of us. They've been abducted. And whoever abducted them. they've shut out the light." He sprang to his feet, a new man, not born of hope, but of a new, all-consuming purpose. "I don't know who they are, but I know what they've done. They lopped Leiran free of the earth, of their stock. They've buried her in some darkness.""How do you know that?" asked Timothy in disbelief. "From where we stand, all we can see is the same empty sky.""Because I heard it," Dean Wason said, his gaze sweeping over his team. "I heard Leiran's power song. It wasn't something you could touch, it was sound, it was a

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CHAPTER 92

"The Heart of the Moon is a crossroads, an intersection of planetary ley lines," Sama Arthur explained, her words slicing with precision as she read the glimmering patterns on the shattered ground. "It's not a refuge; it's an altar, a living one. The witches are going to burn Leiran there, to fulfill the 'World Ender' prophecy."Dean Wason knelt at her side, his gaze following the complex web of energies that Sama was spinning. The blood-trail magic, which he had crafted using a sliver of witch bone and some of his own blood, pulsed softly on the ground, leading the way. "And they believe that by doing this, they're going to cleanse the world, huh? Their idiotic idea of a reset button.""Right," Sama Arthur confirmed, her teeth grinding. "They don't think of Leiran as a child. They think of them as an instrument, a spark for mere destruction, to 'end all thrones' as they say in their prophecies. Ours too.""So they're not just trying to usurp; they're trying to destroy everything," Al

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"The silence is thicker than the stone," Dickson told him, his own voice a low gravelly whisper. "I've never lost so many of us to one attack. Not even against Dean Wason's troops."Sama Arthur did not speak. She simply held Leiran closer, the child's tiny, beating heart the only thing of stability in the world. Their return to camp was a procession of grief. Half a crew had ventured into the Heart of the Moon; less than a third had emerged. The survivors' faces were a grim mixture of exhaustion, loss, and a burning rage."We were not supposed to have trusted him," Gloria told herself, her eyes tracking the figure of Dean Wason down in the distance, walking alone towards the edge of the plateau's cliff, his head bowed. "We were idiots. We should have known better.""His men fell too, Gloria," Theo said quietly, his own arm still bandaged from a magical wound. "Timothy. Tobby. gone. And Paul Wason. gone. The price was paid on both sides.""The price was paid for a child who is to be th

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Dangerous Game- Love in the Strangest Place: Kabanata 91 - Kabanata 93

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CHAPTER 92

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