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While waiting near a farmhouse at dusk, Syl monitors a timepiece and times the approach, as Kass questions the assignment’s worth and the harsh conditions of their search. The story builds tension through ritualized door-knocking, coded signals, and uneasy local reactions, setting up an impending confrontation and the broader consequences of loyalty and history.","Theo Tsirigotis  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons,  \nliving or dead, is coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2026 by Theodoros Tsirigotis  \nAll rights reserved.  \nCover Design by Ryan Mulford  \nCover Art by Kyle Enochs Cover copyright © 2026 by Theodoros Tsirigotis  \nNo portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the author,  \nexcept as permitted by U.S. copyright law.  \nFirst paperback edition February 2026  \nISBNs: 979-8-9940400-0-3 (e-book), 979-8-9940400-1-0 (paperback)  \n[www.theotsirigotis.com](www.theotsirigotis.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor my parents, who filled our house with books  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPART I  \n1. OUTSKIRTS AND ENDINGS  \n2. BROKEN RITUAL  \n3. ALITTLE GLORY  \n4. ANEW WAY  \n5. A QUESTION OF SCOPE  \n6. THE DUTY OF HISTORY  \n7. OVERCAST  \n8. BLOOD AND SNOW  \n9. THE PROBLEM  \n10. THE COST OF LOYALTY  \n11. BAD DREAMS  \n12. BAD HABITS  \n13. TRY, TRY AGAIN PART II  \n14. QUESTIONING  \n15. A PRIVILEGE  \n16. MISSING PIECES  \n17. PRACTICE MAKES   LESS AWFUL  \n18. FIRESIDE STORIES  \n19. A SIGNAL  \n20. COMRADES IN ARMS  \n21. THE CONVERSATIONALIST  \n22. HAPPY MEMORIES  \n23. LITTLE HISTORIES  \n24. APOLOGIES  \n25. WATCH AND WAIT  \n26. WARMING UP  \n27. MOVING ON  \n28. HELL PART III  \n29. AREAL BATTLE  \n30. AFTERMATH  \n31. KNIGHTHOOD  \n32. OMEN  \n33. DEAD MISTAKES  \n34. DOWNWARD AND BACKWARD  \n35. THREE IS COMPANY  \n36. CLEANING UP  \n37. BROKEN RENDEZVOUS  \n38. AGAIN  \n39. DEADWEIGHT  \n40. IN THE PAST  \n41. BEDSIDE MANNER  \n42. BAD CROSSING PART IV  \n43. REUNITED AT LAST  \n44. NEW HABITS  \n45. ALMOST THERE  \n46. GOOD FORTUNE  \n47. ONLY TWO  \n48. FAMILIAR TERRAIN  \n49. ANEW DREAM  \n50. INTO BATTLE  \n51. EVERYTIME  \n52. DEVIL’S TRUTH  \n53. IN THE MUD  \n54. CONSEQUENCES  \n55. WEAKNESS OF DOUBT  \n56. ALIVE AGAIN  \n57. ROCK INA RIVER  \n58. HOPING FOR HATE  \n59. INTO THE LIGHT  \n60. AWAY HOME  \nEPILOGUE  \nThank you for reading!  \nBy Theo Tsirigotis  \nPrequel Novella  \nAcknowledgements  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nUpon the wheel, there shall be a sundering and a breaking, When brother murders brother, and mother smothers child, When the great serpent will burst forth, around the worlds snaking, The children of the heavens must still those of the wild, Or be cast down into the abyssal void, formless, forsaking, Another generation consumed and to the Rift exiled.  \n—Fragment attributed to Andwen II (unconfirmed), Library of Ministry of Fate, Section: Prophecy, Guiding Axioms  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nT he priests said that the earth, the worlds, and every life upon them spun  \nupon prescribed paths, and Syl couldn’t help but despise whichever god had set his own little wheel rolling. Of every gods-forsaken piece of land in every corner of the empire, it was beyond belief that he was back in Getacia.  \nIt was a consolation to him that at least they would be done here after tonight. Their hunt for the last of the escapees had led them here, to these scrubby croplands. They arrived as dusk fell, and the cold was setting in with a vengeance. Along with the five other members of the team, he stopped where the road met an old, dying oak, well shy of the firelight that spilled warm and inviting from the small windows of the nearest farmhouse. The other scattered houses were close enough for their own flickering lights to be visible. They would be too far away to hear anything if their quarry put up a fight.  \nAfter a huddled minute of half-whispers, the team split up, four quickly fading into the twilight, shapes blurring against the high grasses and scattered trees as they joined the rest of the cordon. Syl made a few adjustments to the timepiece in his hand, an intricate series of concentric metal circles. The rings started to move. 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