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Chapter 112: The way home:
Author: Mirabel
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Kaelen Ashwright looked at the window. At the canal , at the morning.

He thought about his father, who had led the sacrifice with mechanical precision and afterward stood in his son's empty chambers surrounded by the remnants of a childhood and wept privately because duty was a chain he'd forged himself and couldn't break but that he'd spent thirty years trying to find a crack in.

He thought about his mother, who had been imprisoned rather than killed because killing her had been beyond what hi
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