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even

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hroat, choking on air. It felt like

sha

weat. My fingernails had dug so deeply into my p

d. Just

s enough

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tering through the slatted windows - a trick of t

ma

pent made of ink and flame. It pulsed once under the sil

in. With... recognition. Like my body re

ove my desk, tugging the nec

red back - pale,

af

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rough the pack house like

to me. But

ached for the salt, like

a kept he

she

ly place quiet enough to think. Her voice

Stay in your place, orphan.

. Just tried t

- too tightly. Someth

't pus

n't f

eac

e like a silent scream. The air hummed, hea

ra flew

with a sickening

bent wrong beneath her. Her breath came in ragged gasps. B

scre

still pulsed through my hands, fading sl

meant t

ith something I had nev

ra

ha

ven s

rr

hispered, stepping back

lt it again - that thing in

ante

ards stormed in, shackled me in cold ir

s in here," one of them sneered

He looked like he wanted

e, unflinching

ed away wit

d confused, I tried to

that power

ruly an

ething

wers in the silenc

e who always growled, whisp

, a

ar. Fu

ri

my permission?" His voice echoed like thunder

," the first guard stamme

d, stepping closer, "and it will

ed and r

o me, eyes

okay, A

ded w

d unfastene

us - a glowing chain of light wrapped around our wrists. I

this?" I

ould answer, I

*

the dreams

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ar

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oled at

wn stil

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ew me

re

there was

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it

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