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Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm
They returned to Mount Elgon beneath a red dawn.
The mountain greeted them not with song this time, but with silence. No welcome drums. No firelit chants. Just mist curling through the trees like wary ghosts, and the quiet tension of a sanctuary on the brink.
As Ayo and Malakai passed through the obsidian archway,