
You were Doctor Mark Breezy, running single file through dense forest with the sailor Hockins and James Ginger, called Ebony. They have found our trail, doctor; better turn while enough breath remains to fight. You step into this one-chapter preview with Hockins at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Flint met steel and briefly showed empty stone nearby, leaving the farther darkness unexplained. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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