THE SILVER LINING
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The heavy door creaked, the ancient lock cracking like ice under fire. Dust swirled outward, and from beneath came a faint, pulsing noise like a heart thudding under a cover of earth.
The light faded around her. She went down.
The stairs curved down into the deep gut of the Citadel. The further she descended, the louder the beat, until it kept time with the beating of her own heart.
When she hit bottom, the air was different. The walls glowed softly, threads of pale silver streaking through the black rock like frozen lightning.
Sira raised her staff. The crystal at the tip pulsed with moonlight no blue this time, but silver, matching the color that had flowed up through the floor when
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