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Chapter 265 - The Pact Revealed

The Scottish safehouse clung to a misty Highland cliff, a stone cottage lashed by wind, its slate roof slick with rain. Inside, a peat fire crackled, casting shadows across Ruoxi's face as she sat at a scarred table, the phoenix blood book open before her. Its leather cover—etched with golden phoenixes—hummed faintly, her tattoo pulsing in sync, steady but strained from London's gas and gunfire. Her graze from the traitor's blade stung under fresh bandages, a reminder of the masked leader's speed and the Keeper's warning—"the traitor walks with you". The Ashen Veil's archive had yielded truths, but the cost—her fire's limits, trust's fracture—weighed heavy.

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