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Chapter 16 : The House of Echoes
Author: Dahlia Queen
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The lower tunnels spat them out into the night.

Cold air slapped Kain across the face the moment they emerged from the rusted drainage grate, carrying the scent of rain-soaked earth and distant fires. The sky was ink-black, broken only by the faint glow of the ruined industrial sector miles behind them.

Aria rose first, scanning the area.

Kain crawled out next, breathing hard partly from exhaustion, partly from the weight of Aria’s revelation still burning like a live wire in his mind.

His fath
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