Chapter 129The Prisoner01:00:00The number burned itself into Damon's mind.One hour.Sixty minutes.Three thousand six hundred seconds.That was all they had left.The teams split apart without another word.There was no time for speeches.No time for goodbyes.No time for promises.Only movement.Only action.Only survival.Damon, Luca, and Isabella raced through the forest toward the tower.Behind them, Nova, Cassian, Seraphine, Hale, and Mira disappeared into the darkness on their way to the nursery.The distance between the groups grew quickly.Soon only silence remained.The kind of silence that existed before disaster.The tower loomed above the trees.Massive.Unnatural.Like a monument to madness.Every step brought it closer.Every step tightened the knot in Damon's chest.Because something felt wrong.Not the tower.Not the island.Not even the countdown.Something else.The prisoner.The image refused to leave his mind.The mysterious figure hidden for twenty years.The
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