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Sleep eludes me like smoke through my fingers, no matter how tightly I try to grasp it. I lie on my bedroll beneath the star-scattered sky, listening to the gentle chorus of my companions’ breathing and snoring while my mind replays the events of the cavern in endless, brutal detail. Every time I close my eyes, I see that first bandit’s face—the shock in his eyes as my axe opened him from shoulder to hip, the way life had simply… left.
A soft chime echoes in my consciousness, followed by translucent golden text that materializes in my vision.
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