Whispers Beneath the Veil

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neath the night sky. His mind, however, was elsewhere-drawn back to that moment in the library

d shimmered like a thread pulled from some forgot

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dn't turn

wer, stepped beside him. Bronze-skinned, tattooed, with silver dreadlocks tied back, Valen ha

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hing more than a book-so why did it feel like her skin was on fire? Ever since

ed the book aga

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metrical, too alive to be normal. When she touched it, her heart

dreams now bled into reality. Or why she ke

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and slid a

en in the dark.

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