Beneath The Burning Silence
"Later, we called it the Artonac Community."
In that old wooden room, the dim glow of a lantern flickered across the map, illuminating veins of red ink marking escape routes, shelters, and abandoned bases.
I looked at the map, but my mind was blank, thundering with a storm I couldn't name. It all felt distant—like someone else's story. Yet it was ours. Mine. Merlin's. Our childhood. Our truth, hidden under layers of lies.
Merlin sat at the edge of the bed, holding a cloth to her wound. Her eyes were red—not just from pain, but from something deeper. Loss. Betrayal. And the most dangerous emotion of all: self-pity turning to rage.
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