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Chapter65:If You Vanish Again
Author: Landing Vale
last update2026-09-17 08:21:19

By sunset, Tidehall had become a city of repairs.

Mages patched cracked wards. Sailors dragged broken coral armor from the harbor. Healers moved from bridge to bridge under lamps hung in storm glass. The First Legion stood silent along the old walls, their blue flames dim but steady, like candles left for the dead.

Elias found Nia on a lower balcony overlooking the sea.

She had removed her hat, which meant either exhaustion or war. Her blue hair moved in the wind, and for once she looked as sma
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