Steady hands don't always mean a steady heart.

A closed room, the scratch of tools on wood, and the suffocating weight of being trusted with something you never volunteered for. This chapter tightens like a knot — the quiet kind, where every competent gesture risks unraveling years of careful silence. What you can do and what you dare to show are rarely the same thing.

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Narrated by Rebecca Hasler.

Set in D.W. Sheppard’s vast interconnected world where protective Gates hold back deadly monsters and treacherous flora, where safety is never guaranteed.

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