Shards of the Moon
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illed f
ce in their eyes. I had reduced them to ashes without a second thought. But stand
Just... st
mbered everything. Not just the
d me more than an
clouds as a spectral light danced across her face. Each passing second, I stole covert gla
n't know
as though they felt the same strange shift I did. The very earth buzzed around
n the wind, and for a breathless second, she
beside her. "Y
fore, I won't interfere with
don't need
"Then you shouldn
ss had never left my mind. It haunted me more
s i
t flinch. The fire on my fingers shifted, but she maintained her courage instead of a fear
't kno
re ly
I scorched the air between us. "You're
ll me,"
und. "Don'
ove. "Becaus
p me, she
rd but naturally discovered sh
d tent tabletop since the dawn began. I moved several maps out
consider me an enemy." "Perhaps I'm
equire ass
. "You're burning alive inside, Rael. You use your bloody tasks to ma
ghtly. "Stop feigning
cause I r
oked
to this life. "You were the boy who found me in the fore
to accept them because I need
eenage boy still lived within me despite
sed revelations when I said, "I f
r eyes. "And yet h
there together amid an uncomfor
newfound fears about protecting her.
he said. "Just
ho'd returned from death, who
flames turned dull
ut my intention
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