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Alleys had always been passages.
To most people, an alley was nothing more than a narrow strip of rock and grass between houses and buildings—a place to cut through, to avoid, to forget. But to the Unbound, alleys were something else entirely. They were seams in the world, places where distance bent and reality thinned. You didn’t just cross town in an alley. If you knew how to walk it, you could cross into another world.
Alleys had always been passages.
To most people, an alley was nothing more than a narrow strip of rock and grass between houses and buildings—a place to cut through, to avoid, to forget. But to the Unbound, alleys were something else entirely. They were seams in the world, places where distance bent and reality thinned. You didn’t just cross town in an alley. If you knew how to walk it, you could cross into another world.
