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Chapter 49 — Ironveil's Fracture

Author: Cael Voss
last update publish date: 2026-06-27 10:08:38

We arrive at Ironveil's border as dawn breaks.

I expected chaos—the specific disintegration that bond dissolution typically produces, the scattered remnants of a pack that's lost its central cohesion. What I find instead is something more complicated, neither fully fractured nor entirely intact.

Brek meets us at the gate.

He looks exhausted in ways that exceed simple sleep deprivation—the specific quality of someone who's spent five days managing crisis without adequate support structure, but h
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