Chapter 23
Author: Maddison
last update2026-09-14 23:59:13

The climb was not an act of will; it was a series of mathematical compromises. Renvar moved with the economy of a man who had long ago stopped asking his body for permission. His fingers, calloused and mapped with thin, silvery scars that glowed with a faint, dying ember-light, found purchase on protrusions that would have snapped under a lesser man’s grip. He felt the stone crumble, felt the vibration travel through his skeletal structure—a dull, rhythmic ache—but he did not falter. He did not
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