Cel's heart quickened.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5680lDJKu
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"What do I need to do?" he asked. "A chant? A ritual?"139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1FlhiJi5k
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Selina shook her head. "No, there is no need for that. You only need to pray."139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHnj6JB5gL
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He hesitated.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡifTt91sN3d
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"Pray for what?"139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKRH1q8thwC
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"Pray for whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, and whatever you long for."139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUni34ihwU
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Cel frowned. That was it? No structured words, no guidance?139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIri1w4C6O
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His mind turned the words over. If his blessing was shaped by his own desires, then it wouldn't be something preordained. It would be crafted by his own will, by the deepest truths of his soul.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSRUg909QBB
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He had always thought of blessings as divine gifts, handed down from the gods without question. But if this one was determined by what he asked for…139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ209NcBEfQp
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The thought didn't linger. His mind had already made its decision, long before he even stepped into this place.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0wvR0tBYjM
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Without another word, Cel moved forward.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFCcrXhagS
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The moment he crossed into the circle of flowers, the air changed.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKXZ9qizXnr
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Density increased around him - space growing thicker, as if he had entered a place outside of time. The temperature dropped sharply, biting through flesh and settling into bone.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMVh3sNp8Te
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Beneath his feet, the ground softened. The flowers, despite their fragile appearance, did not snap under his weight. They shifted with him, welcoming rather than resisting.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV24ynqnbxh
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His breath came slow and steady. He stepped into the heart of the circle. 139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvcPILDtdf
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The moonlight swallowed him whole. 139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudsmtU1MaY
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Suddenly, the world dissolved.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu2Oh4cSvkC
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Mist unraveled into silver streaks - threads pulled from reality itself, stretching and twisting around him. His senses blurred. His body untethered. He was being pulled through the veil of existence, drawn beyond the boundaries of the known.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4a8RTcgbL
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Then—stillness.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKSPPt9JQt
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A frozen sea stretched endlessly before him.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMgaKu7SXu
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Cel's breath caught.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjC3fZDhFU
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The ice was pristine. Flawless. A perfect mirror reflecting the sky above - a sky where no stars dared shine, where only the moon reigned. It loomed impossibly large, closer than any moon should be, spilling pale radiance across the world.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOldm0ApaL
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He took a step forward.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9W7xYq8UBy
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His footfall made no sound. The ice beneath him was smooth as polished glass. When he looked down, his reflection stared back. 139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMf0smkNgT
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Not blank like the mirror lake had shown him. Not hollow-eyed with surrender like the crystal maze had revealed. Just... him - gaunt and haunted.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLE4X2tqXRM
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For the first time, his reflection told no lies.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wQ29IRFaN
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He took another step. The ice held firm, though it looked thin enough to shatter under breath alone.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLq4VF0F5yF
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The silence pressed against him. Not the absence of sound - something heavier. Something that swallowed his own breathing, his heartbeat, until he wasn't sure either existed anymore.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAfsrsi0s4F
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Cold air filled his lungs. Sharp. Biting. The kind of cold that didn't burn - it simply was, absolute and inescapable.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXb5mUu0OB
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And despite everything - the desolation, the silence, the bone-deep cold - something unexpected stirred in his chest.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeoLuXTn9hv
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‘Beautiful.’139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVT5HYNMzNQ
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The thought came unbidden, and Cel hated how true it was.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjLR10xzZR
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This place - this endless frozen sea beneath a silent sky - was burned into his memory. He had stood here once before. Fifteen years old, trembling in his Divine Calling, waiting for the Sun God's warmth to break through the cold. Waiting for fire and radiance to claim him as his birthright.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gHdFs0WkA
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But the sun had never risen.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplobeOycd5
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Instead, the moon had watched.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMFYgCqkjh
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He had known then. Even before the world told him. Even before the clan cast him aside.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvR915Rk08T
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He had never belonged to the Sun.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmgS9qvyDL4
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The moon's light sank deeper, into muscle, into bone, until he felt translucent - as if nothing within him could remain hidden.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEQidZUBfw
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Exposed. Vulnerable.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSPhN7h6aGQ
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And yet, he had never felt more alive.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXekpXUHFBB
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Cel lowered himself to his knees and bowed his head, hands folded.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZiiCTZzeXS
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When he finally spoke, his voice was barely a whisper. But in the perfect stillness of the frozen sea, even whispers carried.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rWo6oYLTd
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"Goddess of the Moon… heed my words." They left him without hesitation. No fear. No uncertainty. Only resolve.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiIW6Pu4ag
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"I desire the strength that will make me unstoppable on my journey. I wish to vanquish all who have wished for my demise and those who will do so in the future. I long for a world purged of such malice, where no one can do to others what was done to me."139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8vLT4ICm9B
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Silence answered.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡerdfkPPxvU
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Then—139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4cSaw9Ps8t
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Moonlight.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqSSq7iubY
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A beam of pure, blinding silver pierced down, bathing him and the ice beneath him in radiant white.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofXtufTXqn
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The surface cracked.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeohi4NnW8j
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Jagged veins of light raced outward from the impact point, spiderwebbing across the perfect mirror. They glowed from within, as though something beneath had awakened and was clawing its way upward to meet him.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQfT0ESqFQ
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The cracks spread in every direction, fracturing the frozen sea into a thousand gleaming shards that somehow held together.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBGRlOVFGyA
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Cel remained kneeling, hands folded. He felt the vibrations through his legs - subtle tremors that grew stronger with each passing heartbeat.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzVDLiMO2v
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The reflection of the moon rippled across the fractured surface. Distorted. Shifting. Breaking apart and reforming in patterns that shouldn't exist.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD4MpBy4E9
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His breath stopped.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgAmdfA7S0
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Something vast swept through him.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yAw3INKla
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Formless. Immeasurable. It pressed into every part of his being without force, without sound - weightless yet absolute. It stripped him to his core, exposed every fracture in his soul, every buried wound.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1EU9p0meZh
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His back arched involuntarily. Fingers scraped against ice, leaving thin trails of frost. The world blurred, grew distant and irrelevant, as though it no longer had the strength to hold him.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1LOFm4wuO
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He was neither falling nor rising. Suspended. Adrift in something greater, something beyond naming.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJv39WxdohJ
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The presence enveloped him - not as shackles, not as chains. Something vast and formless that seeped into him like frost spreading across glass.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCHexK0MZo
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He was not bound.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwcFogw9JF
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He was not claimed.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzErTJDswGl
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He was seen.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3tqN1pC3ir
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The cracks in the ice blazed brighter. Silver light bled from each fracture, spilling across the frozen sea until the entire world became luminous veins. Above, the moon pulsed with rising intensity, each beat stronger than the last.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpTeP4fvFMw
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Cel's consciousness submerged in cold radiance. In the weight of something infinite and unknowable.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxC9OlW0sXv
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Light flickered - once, twice - before vanishing entirely.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcdhOAr4U8a
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The cracks sealed themselves. The ice returned to its perfect, unmarred surface, as if nothing had ever disturbed it.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE4SaM1laH
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Silence reclaimed the frozen sea.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZP94YUS7Cq
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Cel opened his eyes.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgHfA2PncW
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He swayed as he rose, balance faltering. His own weight felt wrong, unfamiliar - as if his body no longer belonged to him entirely.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUVXeelQb3
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The frozen sea remained beneath him - endless and still.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50OX4sjgrx
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Then it dissolved.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHeo2lDGjK
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Mist curled around his ankles in soft currents. The scent of moonlit flowers returned - sharp, sweet, cold. His vision sharpened, details snapping into focus with unnatural clarity.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCP8yhIgIHh
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The sacred ground thrummed beneath his feet - a rhythm that matched something deep in his chest.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ611fXjS2D6
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He had returned.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo9gYyWCEHK
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His gaze dropped to his hands. 139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDr7MEkEwE
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Cel froze.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWQjA5BIF9G
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The hands before him were unrecognizable. No longer skeletal frames wrapped in papery skin, no longer trembling with weakness. The gaunt hollows between tendons had filled. Where starvation had carved him into something barely alive, vitality had returned.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlkLI5e54Ga
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Cel turned them over slowly, studying the transformation. Smooth skin replaced what had been translucent and fragile.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3H4DZ27fVe
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His breath quickened.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvu9CBofpm
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Fingers curled inward - slowly at first, then tighter - until nails bit into skin.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NO7arJwOg
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The pressure was sharp and clear. His hands trembled with it.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHt0WPJ9o2
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When he opened his palms again, half-moon indents marked the flesh, pale crescents that darkened as blood rushed back to fill them.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeh0095xEKW
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But these marks were different. Not born of desperation or decay. Born of strength.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeH1bOZP6Zg
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Of choice.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsAEiu2Mykf
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His gaze traveled down his arms. Lean muscle moved beneath the surface as he flexed experimentally. Not bulky. Not exaggerated. Just… present. Where bone and sinew had once clung together through sheer stubborn will, now there was structure.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdH8jY25Zp
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Cel touched his chest.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqVAJrRTBze
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His ribs no longer jutted against skin like prison bars. His heartbeat pounded against his palm - steady, strong, relentless. Each pulse sent warmth radiating through him, pushing back the cold that had lived in his bones for so long.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqbs76ZEyc
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He took a breath. Deep. Deeper than he'd managed in months.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiugEI6rmRm
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His lungs expanded fully. No rasp. No rattle. Just clean, crisp air filling him completely before escaping in a slow exhale.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7glE93jPdN
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Again. And again.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbQr61RO8M
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Each breath felt like discovery.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLy8d7nLFB
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Fingers rose to trace the sharp line of his jaw, the planes of cheekbones. The gauntness hadn't vanished entirely - angles remained where softness might have been. But the flesh beneath was firm now. Vital.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpynrdGz1D
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Not dying.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqkiTBq87h
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He ran his fingers through his hair—139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWeTcAJmSu
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—and stopped.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNN2wBC60ek
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The texture was wrong.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gH8ta0aVD
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Too soft. Too smooth. Like silk instead of the tangled, brittle mess he'd grown accustomed to.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit3EKMHvuu
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Fingers closed around a strand and pulled. It snapped free. Cel brought it close, eyes narrowing.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSK5nmc2wG
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White.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZbTmglzmB
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Pure, luminous white - like freshly fallen snow catching moonlight.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6fsb2n47V
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His breath caught.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwCFHX1PQn
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He grabbed another strand. Another. His fingers combed through hair that fell to his neck in pale waves, each strand gleaming faintly in the mist.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHRcMvJcCTj
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Gone was the dull brown he'd always known. This was something else entirely - a brand of divinity.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRM2evBZbQs
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His hand dropped to his side.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxTXG0q80J
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He remained still, surrounded by pulsing flowers and swirling mist, feeling the energy that coursed through his body. It was quiet - not violent or overwhelming. Just there. Waiting. Coiled like a sleeping serpent that would wake when called.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Oe6K5igia
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For the first time in longer than he could remember - longer than the year of captivity, longer than the lifetime of disappointment before it - weight lifted from his shoulders.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhcbjAwRNgR
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No pain dragged at his movements. No exhaustion blurred his thoughts. No sickness hollowed him from within.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmys4X9LQO3
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He felt… whole.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOqdl6rS94y
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Cel tilted his head back, gazing up at the moon hanging vast and radiant above him. Its light fell across his upturned face, cool and absolute.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4lZN5DRSFN
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His chest tightened - not with fear, rage or despair.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpQVubuO36H
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With something else.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBut5plKVP
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Something that might have been gratitude, if he still remembered how that felt.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQgTtrm2BY
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His lips moved, barely a whisper, barely more than a breath.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyYz7XTDot0
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But here, in this sacred place, the words carried.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgVQBAXD4e
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"Thank you." 139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO36DdOpjQI
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For a single moment, the moonlight seemed to brighten.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZZFtM3KvU
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Cel took a final breath, then stepped forward.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWh3AcpVHQ
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His foot crossed the threshold of the circle.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMkWRURo6q
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The air lightened around him as he emerged from the sacred ground.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yqWiONdRX
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Selina stood waiting just beyond the flowers, her white robes luminous in the moonlight. Her masked face bore that familiar serene smile.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk5kYX4Rb4X
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For a moment, neither of them moved.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCbiOYXAvGW
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Then she stepped forward, closing the distance between them.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIVYJxPj0A
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Her arms wrapped around him - gentle but firm, drawing him into an embrace that carried the warmth of genuine welcome.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFTuM3SvmfP
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Cel stiffened at first, unused to such contact. But slowly, hesitantly, he let himself lean into it. Just slightly. Just enough.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmxVMyY7tf
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Selina's voice came soft against his ear, carrying the weight of something solemn and eternal.139Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyQ78nrOlu
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