Timeless Assassin Volume 6: The Second Great Betrayal
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"Betrayal is not born in the shadows, but in the light of trust.
A knife in the back only hurts because once, that hand was used to hold you steady.
The cruelest traitors are never the strangers at your gate, but the brothers you ate with, the fathers you honored, the lovers who swore eternal loyalty.
And when betrayal comes, it is not a single act, but a rewriting of history itself, for what was once truth becomes a lie, what was once sacred becomes profane, and the names of the guilty and innocent are switched in the annals of memory.
In the end, betrayal is not merely the breaking of bonds.
It is the birth of a new order, forged from the ashes of trust."
— Archivist Lyrren Dey, On The Nature of Faith and Treachery, 12th Cycle Edition
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(Planet Ixtal, The Lost Forest, Soron and Kaelith's POV, 2500 years ago)
*Creek*
*Rustle*
