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Because somewhere through our bond, I felt Zayrik coming.

His rage was brewing like a gathering storm.

The last thing I heard?

The hum of the shock rod.

Nightmares made real. A lullaby of violence.

Then came pain.

Blinding. Burning. Endless.

Breaking through every wall I’d built.

Tearing through our bond like lightning.

Next... Vask picked me up by the throat as my vision faded to nothing.

But in that nothing, just before consciousness fled:

A promise.

A presence.

A fury wrapped in midnight blue eyes.

Coming for me.

Coming to end this.

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THROUGH OUR BOND, Ifelt the moment she slipped away.

Felt her consciousness fade like a star going dark.

But beneath that darkness, a pulse.

Weak.

But there.

I rounded the final corner just as the next door slid open, automated override from the Velean.

I moved fast.

Not reckless.

Just unstoppable.

Like something ancient and deadly given form.

Every step forward dropped another body.

Every strike was clean. Efficient. Final.

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