Some things stay hidden because you let them. Others, because you need them to.

The air in this chapter smells like pencil shavings and obligation — the quiet friction between the life you've built and the one you left behind. Somewhere between inventory lists and children's laughter, a question tightens like a knot: what do you owe a community that doesn't know what you're capable of?

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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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