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CHAPTER 86 : " Queen of Nothing "

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Nyra awoke to the clang of iron on stone and the hiss of steam. Her wrists burned where thick shackles bit into her skin; her power; the threefold bond of wolf, moon, and flame, felt severed as though a blade had cut through her veins. The world was cold stone and flickering torchlight.

She tried to lift her head; the world tilted and pain bloomed across her chest. Her armor, once blazing with lunar runes, hung in tattered pieces; vestiges of infernal fire had been scraped away, leaving her body bruised and raw.

“Awake at last,” a voice purred, a velvet coo that dripped with malice.

Nyra turned her head toward the cell’s entrance. There stood Councilor Seris, draped in crimson silk, eyes glinting like bloodstones. At her side strode two armored guards, axes slung at their backs.

“Queen of Ash,” Seris said; “or should I say Queen of Nothing?”

Nyra’s lips curled in a snarl, but her throat felt like sand. “Release me,” she rasped. “Or... ”

Seris laughed, a soft echo that danced on the da
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