Chapter 1007 Alone

• Only after you’ve truly been through brutal wilderness do you learn this: the harsh world outside is never the last straw that breaks you. What kills hope is when you give up inside.
• Days of crawling through a blinding white void would drive most people mad. Even Rose and Tom Lowe—both practitioners from the Taoist order, both trained—were running low, spirits dipped and bodies weary. Only Michael Shephard, sitting cross‑legged in quiet meditation, still looked composed.
• At last…