Chapter 9 · free to read
The Guardian did not threaten him. It simply started bringing the roof down on eleven people who had followed him in.
Four hundred miles south, the surge came through her wall as a struck bell comes through a floor.
He had no answer the stone would take. So he stopped answering it.
The Guardian gave him exactly what he had asked for. He would spend the rest of the road wishing it had lied.
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