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Chapter 157 — The Second Fragment
Author: Ash Rise
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Solenne's continued, dedicated research, informed considerably by everything their extended, successful healing work with Resilience had taught, eventually led to discovery of a second, surviving fragment, this one apparently connected to the previous attempt Cassandra had originally documented decades earlier, the one that had failed, according to historical record, through excessive hesitation rather than premature, forced integration.

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