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Chapter twenty-six: The City Beneath the Glacier
Author: Miss Meadows
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The storm had long faded into memory.

Now there was only silence—vast, crystalline, and heavy with breathless awe. Kael and Lira trudged through the pale tunnels beneath the Frostlands, their steps echoing softly against walls that shimmered with buried light. The Aetherheart in Kael’s chest pulsed faintly, attuned to something ancient just beyond the ice.

“Are you sure this is the right way?” Lira asked, brushing frost from her eyelashes. “Because I’m starting to think the wyrm sent us on a sc
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