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Steel screams against steel as I swing my greataxe in a wide arc, forcing three miners backward. My arms burn with exhaustion, but I can’t stop moving. Can’t stop fighting. All around me, chaos tears the night apart like claws through fabric.
The stones won’t stop screaming.
The sound burrows into my skull through my giant blood, each note carrying grief so old it makes my teeth ache. The ground shudders beneath my boots, cracks spreading like spiderwebs across ancient stone. Blue-white light pours from below—beautiful and terrible, like captured starlight bleeding into our world.
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