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Beneath the Dragon's Scale
A disgraced cartographer, Elias Thorne, races against his ruthless rival, Silas Vane, to find the legendary city of Zerzura, hidden by an ancient dragon scale map. The map's cryptic riddles and the unforgiving desert terrain, rife with…
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…Kaelen reached the top of the passage, pulling themselves out into a narrow canyon. The sun was setting, painting the sky in shades of orange and red. They turned back, but the passage had collapsed, sealed by a fall of rock. "Tasha! Elias! Zahra!" Silence. Then, a faint voice, muffled by stone. "Kaelen! We're alive. But we're trapped." Kaelen looked at the rubble, then at the desert stretching to the horizon. Somewhere out there, Vane was still searching. And Tariq was still inside the city. "Hold on," Kaelen called. "I'll find a way back." But even as they said it, they knew it was a lie. The city was sealed. And the people they had come to trust were on the other side.