Chapter 91The hollow held them for the space of a single shared breath before the two approaching forces closed the distance. Damien kept Zara and the children inside the stone circle because the carved ring was the only ground that had ever answered the bloodline on its own terms. Elias and Liora pressed close, gold light flickering around their small bodies in restless sheets that brightened whenever the residual glow from the shaft or the many-faced presence from the trees drew nearer. The surface air smelled of smoke and pine and the chemical sting of whatever ordinance the governments had already spent on the surrounding forest. The war had not paused while they were underground. It had only widened. Yet the immediate threat was not the rotors in the distance. It was the claim that had followed them up through stone and water and dark and now stood on two sides of the same hollow, patient and unfinished.The residual gold that had climbed the shaft spilled out of the roots and b
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