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Chapter 14 - Chapter 14 – The Forbidden Manuscript

That night, they hid in a forgotten library beneath the mosque ruins. Dust covered the books, but one shelf was untouched.

Safaa lit a small oil lamp. The flame revealed a manuscript bound in copper wire. Its pages were not paper but thin sheets of pressed glass, etched with words that moved when read.

"This… is older than the Cult," she whispered. "Older than the city."

Kairen leaned closer. The words shimmered into shapes: clocks made of bone, towers of sand falling upward, men with faces erased.

And then a phrase burned itself onto the page:

"When the Watchmaker falls, the Thirteenth Hour shall reign."

The flame flickered. The manuscript snapped shut on its own. The lamp shattered.

And from the dark, voices rose. The Veiled Ones were here.

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