Chapter 16: The First Anchor

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Chapter 16: The First Anchor

Maren was standing at the table when Kael walked through the door.

Not sitting. Standing — the Ancient Codex open, Asha’s annotations marked with strips of paper, three copies of the ritual sequence laid out in order, the map of Valdenmoor’s underground spread beneath all of it with the seven anchor points circled in grey ink that Maren had matched to Asha’s original color with the particular precision of someone who understood that details mattered.

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