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heavy on my shoulders. They whispered of old battles and colder hearts. I moved through the

nd unreadable, passed over me like I was nothing more than an obligation. When our eyes met

ed prison. And I was chained to a m

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its wings cutting through

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n my blood-w

window and seen a flicker of light in the trees. Not fire

. And now, here in the quiet, heart still racing from the raven's fli

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yes-but silence did

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flame, this vo

my thoughts before cruel v

f them spat, her wo

sneered. "A fragile omega dra

ipping with scorn. "That ring? It's just me

re the ones who should have honored me as Lu

unspoken judgment. Whispers followed me everywhere. I walked on

eant to challenge. The

ness summoned by cr

own trailing behind her like blood on marble. H

laced with poison. "The castle's new

her gaze, even though

cause of that ring?" She stepped closer, her sm

fingers against the silver ban

taken. And right now, you're nothing but a

tried to silence. Every fear I bur

ssed, "but you haven't earne

it was triumphant. The kind of l

deep. But in the silence that fol

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a s

lic

sed by the steadiness in my voice. "I see it now. Al

altered-jus

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ped between u

, no matter how hard you try to tea

e silenc

your venom. All it does is s

her face twisted. The mas

hands didn't shake. Instead, warmth

unfam

powe

e Luna's spirit

it. Not yet. I wasn't ready to believe I was mo

the warmt

urling behind m

yes, masking the cr

... Luna," she sneered, before turn

. My fingers curled around

ence pr

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face

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is beginni

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this cursed castle, I didn

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if stepping over i

burn m