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... ley opened to them like a wound in the earth, its gnarled trees clawing at the sky.
The road, once a path of promise, had become a suffocating gauntlet. The days blurred into a rhythm of hooves on dusty tracks, the clink of armor, and the ever-present, silent watch of the Umbra Heralds.
Kaelen found his fingers constantly straying to the hilt of his dagger, a nervous habit that even the System seemed to notice with a disapproving flicker.
They rode under a sky the color o ...
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