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Chapter 37 — The Bond Forms

Author: Cael Voss
last update publish date: 2026-06-21 09:25:01

I wake before dawn knowing something is different.

Not a thought. A body thing — the architecture of myself has changed overnight, the way you know a room has been rearranged before your eyes catch up to what moved. I lie still and feel for it.

Ash is there. Present, steady, the way she's been since the resonance settled weeks ago.

Something else is there too.

New.

I sit up. The room — my room, the storage closet with the nail and the dead candle — looks the same in the pre-dawn grey. The ring
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