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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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…Vane smiled, triumphant. "It seems the guardian is not as powerful as she believed." Tasha fell to her knees, the pain of the broken scale echoing through her. She felt the well's power receding, the path to Zerzura fading. Elias was at her side, his hands on her shoulders. "Tasha, stay with me." She looked up at him, her eyes filled with tears. "I can't... I can't hold it." "Yes, you can. You're stronger than that scale. You're stronger than any of them." She wanted to believe him. But the darkness was closing in, the well's energy slipping through her fingers like sand. And in that moment, Silas Vane stepped forward, his pistol still smoking. "It seems I win after all, Thorne."