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The Knife Inside the Veil
Chapter 37–The Knife Inside the Veil
Victory stank, too.
Not of blood or oil this time, but of disbelief. Of adrenaline that curdled in the veins because it had nowhere left to go. At the edge of the ruined Library, bonfires burned the last of the Purity Front’s banners, and children—free, wide-eye...