Restoring Tomorrow

MAEVIA

For a long moment after leaving the codex house, I stood beneath the open sky and allowed myself to breathe. Tomorrow, I would return not as a visitor but as someone with honest work waiting for her.

The roads of the neutral city remained crowded with wolves from many territories. Their scents mingled in the air, but none of them knew my name or cared about my rank.

I welcomed that.

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