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Chapter Fourteen: Ashes and Oaths
The moon waned. The red bled away.
And with it, the wild calmed.
For now.
Hollowroot's survivors returned in silence, cloaked in the weight of what they'd seen. There had been no victory song this time-just the sound of wind through broken trees and the distant howl of things still watching from the Veil.
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