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Ch. 78 - Shadows of the Past

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Gabe POV

The clang of steel and the tearing of flesh echoed around me. More were fighting only a few miles out. The chaos wasn't over and we charged deeper into the once protected lands the Kings and Queens fought so hard to protect.

An even larger battle warred down the path. The second we arrived to help, something else caught my eye, something more terrifying than the undead abominations we've been fighting.

Kiera. She stood in the midst of the battle, her long white hair wild, her body battered but refusing to falter. But she wasn't fighting the same mindless corpses as the rest of us. No, the creature before her was different, part human, part shifted werewolf, and somehow more gruesome than anything I'd seen so far. Its body twisted unnaturally, half decayed but horribly strong.

"Not again!" Kiera screamed, her voice thick with both rage and desperation. She swung her blade, but the creature barely flinched, its twisted mouth curling into something resembling a grin.

"You're de
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