Chapter 15: Forty Hobgoblin’s

Chapter 15: Forty Hobgoblin’s

The Iron Hearth War Room had the energy of a place where people had recently stopped crying and were now trying to look like they hadn’t been. Teenagers who’d logged in for a casual Tuesday were sitting with their new ears and tails and the dawning understanding that nobody was coming to fix this, and the sound of it was a low, collective misery that filled the hall like background music nobody had asked for.

Liam was doing maths.

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