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CHAPTER 211 — THE CRACK THAT STILL BLEEDS
Author: Rukky
last update2025-11-08 00:51:51

“Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the wound that learns how to breathe.”

The world was quiet too quiet. Adrian opened his eyes to the soft glow of dawn. The grass beneath him shimmered faintly, bending toward the sun as if in worship.

For a long time, he didn’t move. His body ached not the kind of pain that came from battle, but from rebuilding. From being alive again.

He turned his head. Emily lay beside him, half-buried in light. Her hair was tangled with the grass, her face calm in sleep. A faint ember still glowed at her collarbone, pulsing softly with each breath.

He reached out, brushing his fingers against her wrist. Her pulse answered steady, strong. He exhaled shakily. “You did it, Emily…”

He sat up slowly. The landscape stretched around him, vast and renewed, yet wrong. Mountains floated like mirages in the distance.

The rivers pulsed with veins of gold. Every few seconds, the world seemed to shift, as if trying to remember what shape it was supposed to take.

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