Cel's heart quickened.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTVxSFQxEnN
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"What do I need to do?" he asked. "A chant? A ritual?"72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3x790HwtP
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Selina shook her head. "No, there is no need for that. You only need to pray."72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT2cxV04cna
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He hesitated.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSVOefb3GB
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"Pray for what?"72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyth0hK5yhW
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"Pray for whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, and whatever you long for."72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3LRAKm118
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Cel frowned. That was it? No structured words, no guidance?72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyxaurQklFb
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8fofjmDYR
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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…72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4a5vVntLui
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The thought didn't linger. His mind had already made its decision, long before he even stepped into this place.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdQVQ7nkh7Z
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Without another word, Cel moved forward.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRiy7QgSmbE
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The moment he crossed into the circle of flowers, the air changed.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUO1jPGrfV
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEDEY9cQv8p
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZLlfBNcyp
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His breath came slow and steady. He stepped into the heart of the circle. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2aqJF8kKft
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The moonlight swallowed him whole. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDckcpqfxvZ
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Suddenly, the world dissolved.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFROMjGDvli
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPj9jy3q2Rh
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Then—stillness.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnWEVXBu3p
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A frozen sea stretched endlessly before him.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmivED7AviO
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Cel's breath caught.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRinmbnVn5v
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XU25DXgCC
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He took a step forward.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjcXrETuig
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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. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVgcEpnYU1
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDJU6rscTm
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For the first time, his reflection told no lies.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJZlOj2AEP
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He took another step. The ice held firm, though it looked thin enough to shatter under breath alone.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdPtJvdtau9
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfshvU88oa4
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Ijp43yf6h
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And despite everything - the desolation, the silence, the bone-deep cold - something unexpected stirred in his chest.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAWRcPNAZy
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‘Beautiful.’72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzMproaORE
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The thought came unbidden, and Cel hated how true it was.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLGYAwQbqB
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33Ky71Kd7b
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But the sun had never risen.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW74t3dEyAc
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Instead, the moon had watched.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsF7BUGrPQ
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He had known then. Even before the world told him. Even before the clan cast him aside.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8102dkl7Ku
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He had never belonged to the Sun.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnvgigF9M0
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwCJkZZnfc
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Exposed. Vulnerable.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDG4n8JTp41
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And yet, he had never felt more alive.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn08o9mFazP
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Cel lowered himself to his knees and bowed his head, hands folded.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZDyQhgVuh
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkPVImeoOy
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"Goddess of the Moon… heed my words." They left him without hesitation. No fear. No uncertainty. Only resolve.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTdVRgg07jE
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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."72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkDyXYs4OXh
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Silence answered.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVhRcaa4xp
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Then—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNfP74H9lI
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Moonlight.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdr8dmJ05Tc
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A beam of pure, blinding silver pierced down, bathing him and the ice beneath him in radiant white.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDnig0FtRg
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The surface cracked.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHXa3iEMwx
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeI5J6oNGv
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The cracks spread in every direction, fracturing the frozen sea into a thousand gleaming shards that somehow held together.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kS4boo1YH
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwfHRbR3HS
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD9LnoEtj1m
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His breath stopped.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡut5gnwgluB
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Something vast swept through him.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByNwf085L0
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuekrdUCHe
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KfmfaYlQX
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He was neither falling nor rising. Suspended. Adrift in something greater, something beyond naming.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEk9tACD1Q
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIalcynaV0
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He was not bound.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgvWivWurlf
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He was not claimed.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsCfLTkVeH
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He was seen.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsb1TTHtcLS
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFJmGwclWF
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Cel's consciousness submerged in cold radiance. In the weight of something infinite and unknowable.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYSXlksi6W
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<<Rise, Chosen One.>> 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvGMbngnY5
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Light flickered - once, twice - before vanishing entirely.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDA5R0uAYif
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The cracks sealed themselves. The ice returned to its perfect, unmarred surface, as if nothing had ever disturbed it.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVRVIntkka
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Silence reclaimed the frozen sea.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1XZXMPctl
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Cel opened his eyes.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eVk4EAcM2
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBPaFT0eiF
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The frozen sea remained beneath him - endless and still.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SPTOGv64c
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Then it dissolved.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgPdfSRDGC
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbHLYNvqofs
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The sacred ground thrummed beneath his feet - a rhythm that matched something deep in his chest.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1m9PHIvHv
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He had returned.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fwcGo7I6o
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His gaze dropped to his hands. 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIiq2QivKGw
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Cel froze.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5bFc6LZpUL
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDrtx6k8G2
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Cel turned them over slowly, studying the transformation. Smooth skin replaced what had been translucent and fragile.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVsFHp1lXS
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His breath quickened.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0vI4rcOjt
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Fingers curled inward - slowly at first, then tighter - until nails bit into skin.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMOCpTB1qL
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The pressure was sharp and clear. His hands trembled with it.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4Zzw5liGU
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9URLnIdqG
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But these marks were different. Not born of desperation or decay. Born of strength.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClmV9peR6H
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Of choice.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWUGAn15uN
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvq8sAGymiV
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Cel touched his chest.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugZSmMiMya
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2U4oeIR3TL
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He took a breath. Deep. Deeper than he'd managed in months.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8sAzZmRSm
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBanKg8hoWr
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Again. And again.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjP0UbIUtP
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Each breath felt like discovery.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0B0u6nYw2f
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8T8FxBRr72
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Not dying.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmm9FyZweyR
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He ran his fingers through his hair—72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEaVhImowtE
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—and stopped.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG5fWbuxJ0Q
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The texture was wrong.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNgr4N3FJV
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Too soft. Too smooth. Like silk instead of the tangled, brittle mess he'd grown accustomed to.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7W57nSNNVn
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Fingers closed around a strand and pulled. It snapped free. Cel brought it close, eyes narrowing.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcKidTe8Yn
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White.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0nVqE82HMu
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Pure, luminous white - like freshly fallen snow catching moonlight.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0ReY6uvUe
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His breath caught.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkIuSRGzU9g
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGayOeq3X6
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Gone was the dull brown he'd always known. This was something else entirely - a brand of divinity.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlIJlYqgGVh
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His hand dropped to his side.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mHybYcwBv
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xS7CwOPgi
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKn0lVQXgxW
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No pain dragged at his movements. No exhaustion blurred his thoughts. No sickness hollowed him from within.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GjU43YoVL
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He felt… whole.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpc2Cw6jMb
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy1pBsiKuu
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His chest tightened - not with fear, rage or despair.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvBBxTxXcH
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With something else.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkdanqfSen
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Something that might have been gratitude, if he still remembered how that felt.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnBfCES7Aji
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His lips moved, barely a whisper, barely more than a breath.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrK8eWwtmK1
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But here, in this sacred place, the words carried.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6om3rmkPCX
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"Thank you." 72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxp7aoH1Bjm
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For a single moment, the moonlight seemed to brighten.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9ctM9lUgR
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Cel took a final breath, then stepped forward.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWmMDkpyyA9
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His foot crossed the threshold of the circle.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtCxLdcPGlG
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The air lightened around him as he emerged from the sacred ground.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc9mUYzxcb
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrx8zt9N0K
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For a moment, neither of them moved.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLJHCCKd2UB
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Then she stepped forward, closing the distance between them.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEU1fuaZzHS
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Her arms wrapped around him - gentle but firm, drawing him into an embrace that carried the warmth of genuine welcome.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5VbuuEgsy
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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.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOsg2AMQP1w
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Selina's voice came soft against his ear, carrying the weight of something solemn and eternal.72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWYU7VTzhM
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"Welcome, under the wings of the Moon Goddess."72Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRq1FHW1qR
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