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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Vess, The Hollow Veil

I am the whisper in the dark no one wants to hear.

Name's Vess. A thief by trade, a shadow by nature.

The city's underbelly is my home—where secrets rot, and trust is currency nobody can afford.

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I steal more than coin.

I steal truths.

Fragments of memory, shards of forgotten lives, stolen from the mouths of the damned.

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They call me the Hollow Veil because I vanish before the lie even settles.

I'm not just a thief.

I'm a mirror.

Reflecting the sins everyone hides behind closed doors.

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Last night, a client slipped me a token—etched with the same sigil that burns on the palms of the cursed.

The Gate.

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It's awakening.

And so am I.

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I don't know if I'm a pawn or a player.

But in a game where the rules bleed, I choose to be the shadow you never see coming.

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The city breathes poison.

And I breathe it in deep.

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Tomorrow, I'll take what they fear most.

Their secrets.

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