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Chapter 138 - Spider

The hoofbeats were too steady to belong to anything wild.

Each strike landed with mechanical weight, not rushed, but chosen. Ground bit back with every step. The dirt didn't scatter. It cracked. Like something old walking through something older.

Merlin didn't move from the edge of the fire's reach.

He didn't have to.

Nathan stepped half a pace left. Elara mirrored. Seraphina shifted her stance to quarter-guard, blade low, breath quiet. 

Dion tensed without moving. Mae reached for her side before remembering she'd been stripped of a weapon three trials ago.

The figure kept coming.

Closer now.

The thing it rode wasn't a horse. Not really. Equine shape, yes, but the silhouette flickered in the gaps between torch and starlight. 

Plates of armor along its sides flexed like ribs. Its eyes weren't eyes. Just two pale circles of constant light.

The rider wore no insignia.

But they wore command like a skin.

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