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Chapter 54 — Testing

Author: Brandi Rae
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-12 01:46:06

Nobody slept well after the Watcher smiled.

By sunrise, the Fire Tower moved with the strained quiet of a settlement pretending it had not spent the night listening to the woods. Fires were lit, breakfast was cooked, water was carried from the barrels to the cabins, and yet every task seemed to require more people than it had the day before.

No one went for water alone.

No one checked the fence alone.

Even the children stayed closer to the main cabin, watched by adults who tried very hard not t
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