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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9: Mirek, The Bone Collector

The dead speak louder than the living.

My name is Mirek. They call me the Bone Collector.

I walk the borderlands where flesh fades but bones remain, telling stories no one dares to hear.

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I collect what others abandon—fragments of broken lives, shattered promises, and secrets buried beneath dust and blood.

Bones don't lie. They don't hide.

They bleed truth.

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The Gate's hunger is growing. It feasts on flesh, but it's the bones that bind the world together.

I've seen the fractures.

The cracks that run deeper than skin.

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They say I'm cursed because I talk to the dead.

Maybe they're right.

But the dead are the only ones who tell me what's real.

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Last moon, I found a skeleton draped in ash, clutching a shattered hourglass.

Time itself fractures in this place.

And I am its unwilling witness.

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I carry my burdens in a sack of bones and silence.

Because sometimes, silence is the loudest scream.

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The Gate's shadow grows longer.

And the bones whisper.

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