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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 24: Idanha-a-
Velha
The sun rose over the Portuguese countryside,
pouring honeyed light across low hills. Henry and
Carolina drove north, away from the city, toward
Idanha-a-Velha, an ancient Roman settlement that
time had folded inward. No phones. No cameras.
Just stone and silence.
They were following Jinji’s last breadcrumb: a
geotag buried in corrupted audio, triangulated
through satellite lag and tiny timestamp glitches. It
didn’t point to Geneva. It pointed here, an obscure
pocket of the map too small for routine
surveillance.
Carolina checked the coordinates again. “Here,”
she said, nodding toward an overgrown trail that
slipped behind the ruins of a collapsed cathedral.
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