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Chapter 69: The Iron Womb

Author: Nova Quinn
last update publish date: 2026-04-15 15:14:08

The Obsidian Belt was not a place for the living; it was a cosmic junkyard of jagged, iron-rich asteroids and the frozen ghosts of ancient tectonic shifts. The Ghost-Runner drifted through the debris like a shadow, its engines cold, its hull clicking as the metal contracted in the absolute zero of the Deep Belt. Inside, the emergency lighting was a dim, rhythmic amber, casting long, flickering shadows across the faces of the three children huddled in the narrow cargo berth.

Killian sat in the p
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