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When they reached the surface, the sky had shifted. Not the gentle dim of evening, but a bruised, low ceiling of cloud, thick enough to press the world inward. The air tasted metallic, like old coin and rain.
None of them spoke at first.
Sarra was the first to break the silence.
“We’re not alone.”
They turned. Across the broken stones near the sealed site, figures gathered—dozens, cloaked in ragged colors, faces hidden behind cloth and cracked helmets. Some bore weapons scavenged from too many fields. Others bore nothing but their silence.
Marauders. Deserters. Or worse—those who had glimpsed what slept in the Hollow and chosen to serve it.
“Weapons,” Torv said, voice steady.
Gellon cracked his neck and rolled his shoulders. “Finally. Something I understand.”
But it wasn’t simple.
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