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Chapter 1: The Wrong Beer
Chapter 2: Echoes in Static and Blood
Chapter 3: The Breaking Point
Chapter 4: Sanctuary's Sharp Edges
Chapter 5: Rusted Bars
Chapter 6: The Hand in the Dark
Chapter 7: The Storm Finds Its Calm
Chapter 8: The Giant at the Door
Chapter 9: Sparks and Promises
Chapter 10: Rumbling stomach
Chapter 11: Broken Gold
Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
Chapter 13: Cherry Bombs and Tripping Wires
Chapter 14: Held and Unlocked
Chapter 15: Tending flames
Chapter 16: Whispers and warnings
Chapter 17: The impulse of trust
Chapter 18: Curious thoughts
Chapter 19: Whispers in the dark
Chapter 20: Golden eyes in the dark
Chapter 21: The thorn and the touch
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Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
It was a howl.
It had emerged from the forest beyond the lodge, low and dull at first, a dying dirge that scoured against the night. Then it rose, curving into a screaming high yelp that rattled windowpanes and scraped down my back like glacial fingernails. It wasn't distant. It was nearby. Impossi...