The Moon Kingdom's Lost Heiress

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e my heart was brea

e forest echo

he

heading

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trying to b

re hunt

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pered, struggl

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voice returned,

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lf tr

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and ran

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t, I couldn

rickled from

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of the warriors

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out a long, te

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nt moon pendant arou

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ed in fru

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look

glowing pendan

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cklace had jus

d she rea

further, the myster

into the forest. You

llowe

had warned us never to e

ssed its border

here meant c

y step toward t

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ecame unnatu

ins

bir

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d around my feet as

ler, their trunks

light flickere

have tu

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if the forest

nutes, I reached

a stone altar covere

ed into the clearing, th

er light erupte

d shook v

across the a

en

voice echoed thro

last

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d not come f

om beneath

st heir ha

earing, deep enough to make the

he last heir

caught in

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d made

no f

tit

herit

eryone pitied and the girl Alpha Kael

om the altar intensified un

as suddenly

wly emerged

't entir

ver hair drifting around her although there was no wind. Her glowin

so much," sh

tively st

are

le crosse

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art s

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d

stung

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me harder than

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did not simpl

her, unabl

was h

ring fel

d... b

swer, the pendant around

ly touching it with t

ver meant to be ordi

sea

. and your true identity from thos

es wea

re ly

sh I

forest surrounding us, he

getting

tant howls echoed

had found t

ipped m

ll kil

certain

lowing symbols carved into the

is not your n

rumbled

he altar as if something insid

ked directly

as awakened t

ls grew

thundered towa

e!" one warr

ound

rd the fore

rough the trees, their fangs bare

shifted into h

Alpha Kael's e

a gave you a chance to leave with you

did

s are

long sil

eave this fo

ed woman steppe

royal blood on

rrior

l...

ard me, confusion re

er question, the altar ex

oar shook the

lit open bene

om the earth, wrapping around

c er

is t

n't m

ins tig

ssion darkened as

, Lyra. You don't

is hap

f is a lie. Your mother wasn't an ordi

mmered agai

.. who

wave of terrifying power

ins sha

riors w

n't looking a

ng into the dar

turned pal

m dropped

No.

an't

footsteps echoed

crimson eyes opene

ice sent a chill through e

r twenty-on

, filled with da

inally found