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Chapter 78 The Vane Protocol
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2026-06-17 00:16:15The hangar is the one part of the estate the fire has not yet reached. A cold steel cavern at the far end of the service spine, the shuttle at its center with its doors open and its engines climbing toward a scream and Sarah's face in the cockpit window, her hand raised in a signal that means now.
We are forty feet from it. Forty feet from sky, and ocean, and the long flight to my brother.
Forty feet.
I have crossed worse distances tonight. A corridor full of grey gods. A
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