Chapter 122

Morning sunlight dappled Talia's path as she made her way through the forest, renewed conviction lifting her steps. The self-doubt that had paralyzed her after the trapper's misfortune had passed with the night. She knew now her inner light could yet guide her true, if she had faith to follow its radiance.

But uncertainties still lingered beneath her regained confidence. She remained a hunted fugitive with bleak prospects. And worse, her decision to walk alone had abandoned Leonard to the destructive path of vengeance. Might it already be too late to sway him from confrontation's brink?

Talia quickened her pace as she reached the valley's edge, peering out over the patchwork lands she had traversed these long weeks. Somewhere in those sun-dappled hollows, her old mentor even now might be planning the very violence they had sworn to avoid. She had to find and dissuade him before the simmering embers of his crusader hate were fanned into renewed inferno.

Closing her eyes, Talia calmed
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