Lucien sat in the stillness of the ShadowFang council room, the torches flickering shadows across stone walls that had witnessed centuries of secrets. Kaelen had returned that morning, her steps silent but deliberate, carrying the weight of her journey like an unspoken herald of change. Between them lay a simple object—a scroll bound in blackened leather, the edges worn from travel, the seal of the ancient seer intact.He didn’t speak. Not yet.Kaelen placed the scroll on the table. Her eyes, dark and unreadable, locked with his. “You asked for the truth,” she said softly, voice devoid of judgment. “Here it is. All of it. The history, the prophecy—the things they never wanted you to know.”Lucien’s hand hovered above the parchment, hesitating. There was something in the air, something heavy and charged, that made his pulse stutter. When he finally unrolled it, the script shimmered faintly, as if the words themselves remembered their own weight.He began to read aloud, voice low, carry
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