Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
It was a howl.
It had emerged from the forest beyond the lodge, low and dull at first, a dying dirge that scoured against the night. Then it rose, curving into a screaming high yelp that rattled windowpanes and scraped down my back like glacial fingernails. It wasn't distant. It was nearby. Impossi...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Wrong Beer
2. Chapter 2: Echoes in Static and Blood
3. Chapter 3: The Breaking Point
4. Chapter 4: Sanctuary's Sharp Edges
5. Chapter 5: Rusted Bars
6. Chapter 6: The Hand in the Dark
7. Chapter 7: The Storm Finds Its Calm 

8. Chapter 8: The Giant at the Door

9. Chapter 9: Sparks and Promises 

10. Chapter 10: Rumbling stomach 

11. Chapter 11: Broken Gold

12. Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence

13. Chapter 13: Cherry Bombs and Tripping Wires

14. Chapter 14: Held and Unlocked

15. Chapter 15: Tending flames

16. Chapter 16: Whispers and warnings 

17. Chapter 17: The impulse of trust

18. Chapter 18: Curious thoughts 

19. Chapter 19: Whispers in the dark 

20. Chapter 20: Golden eyes in the dark 

21. Chapter 21: The thorn and the touch 

22. Chapter 22: The Edge of Surrender


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