Chapter 9 · free to read
Mireille's inner circle fought inside a silver line. Get past it and the crown was four rungs away.
The silver duelist never hit her. He reached into her flame and took a handful of it out.
Six seconds of a laugh in a sunlit gym. It went out over the circle in front of two hundred people, and it did not come back.
Rei's drill. Wall off the core wound. Fight out of the shallows.
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