Chapter 42 The Double-Edge
The heavy silence of the cavern pressed against us, heavier than the hundreds of feet of limestone overhead. My father’s hand remained clamped over the iron pry-bar, the dark, void-iron texture of his skin slowly creeping up the metal, chilling the glowing golden heat I was trying to channel from my...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Pulse of a Failure
2. Chapter 2 The Taste of Golden Blood
3. Chapter 3 The Hunger of the Forge
4. Chapter 4 The Scars of the Sovereign
5. Chapter 5 The Frozen Goddess and the Golden Spark
6. Chapter 6 The Melting of the Ivory Court
7. Chapter 7 The Maw of the Abyss
8. Chapter 8 The Ignition of the Eclipse
9. Chapter 9 The Ash of the Crown
10. Chapter 10 The Unveiling of the Dawn
11. Chapter 11 The Golden Vanguard
12. Chapter 12 The Ember of Rebellion 
13. Chapter 13 The Echo of the Frontier
14. Chapter 14 The Red Pass
15. Chapter 15 The Melting of the Marches
16. Chapter 16 The Gravity of Peace
17. Chapter 17 The Weight of the Head
18. Chapter 18 The Direct Current
19. Chapter 19 The Ash-Cooked valley
20. Chapter 20 The Subterranean Sun
21. Chapter 21 The Lunar Ultimatum
22. Chapter 22 The Frost of the Weeping Moon
23. Chapter 23 The Melting of the Weeping Glacier
24. Chapter 24 The Awakening Waters
25. Chapter 25 The Vanguard's Crucible
26. Chapter 26 The Silk and the Flame
27. Chapter 27 The Sunless Basin
28. Chapter 28 Weight of Gold and Bone
29. Chapter 29 The Hearth and the Shadow
30. Chapter 30 The Trade Winds of the Frontier
31. Chapter 31 The Shadow of the Trade Routes
32. Chapter 32 The Heavy Cargo
33. Chapter 33 The Searing Point
34. Chapter 34 The Green Horizon
35. Chapter 35 The Roots of Revolution
36. Chapter 36 The Burning Line
37. Chapter 37 The Ghost of the Basin
38. Chapter 38 The Cold Throne
39. Chapter 39 The Fractured Plazza
40. Chapter 40 The Blood Pact
41. Chapter 41 The Blood of the Smith
42. Chapter 42 The Double-Edge
43. Chapter 43 The First Strike
44. Chapter 44 The Weight of the Deep
45. Chapter 45 The Ascent of Fire
46. Chapter 46 The False Network
47. Chapter 47 The Smelter's Choice
48. Chapter 48 The Fracture Point
49. Chapter 49 The False Eclipse
50. Chapter 50 The Purple Ignition
51. Chapter 51 The Third Crucible
52. Chapter 52 The Split Anvil
53. Chapter 53 The Dead Weld
54. Chapter 54 The Cured Iron
55. Chapter 55 The Salt Path
56. Chapter 56 The Forks
57. Chapter 57 The First Strike
58. Chapter 58 The Slit Bed
59. Chapter 59 The Low Iron
60. Chapter 60 The Standard Sheet
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