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Chapter Forty: Rebuilding The Council

The rebel camp was no more than a scattering of canvas and crude shelters stitched into the forest’s edge, hidden beneath a crag of stone. Fires were kept low. Voices were hushed. These were not idealists — they were survivors.

Tomas sat hunched near the coals, coughing wetly into his sleeve. E...