Cel's heart quickened.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Ub6qIWuVi
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"What do I need to do?" he asked. "A chant? A ritual?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JHpBGGOKu
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Selina shook her head. "No, there is no need for that. You only need to pray."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzk6gwTUTPH
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He hesitated.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zhgjKlkA9
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"Pray for what?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ9JZZG70Mg
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"Pray for whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, and whatever you long for."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRA1R7eNdy
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Cel frowned. That was it? No structured words, no guidance?36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡboWsdh4IbW
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2a9rgfizeM
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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…36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡidTBBQI1yL
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The thought didn't linger. His mind had already made its decision, long before he even stepped into this place.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0QNtLUMvj
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Without another word, Cel moved forward.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6POKCumePA
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The moment he crossed into the circle of flowers, the air changed.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cMgjsqeNL
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21nbj42fYj
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfeUM6rulL
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His breath came slow and steady. He stepped into the heart of the circle. 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkla4fMikgM
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The moonlight swallowed him whole. 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMx7IX3AHU
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Suddenly, the world dissolved.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXNbevJEGS
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65Zz5YUQ05
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Then—stillness.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QWs81ebyQ
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A frozen sea stretched endlessly before him.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvXJUBEIyzX
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Cel's breath caught.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimyk0cphUz
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZkVol2Ok6
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He took a step forward.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOxkTomWNbk
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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. 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0aTrRO0bp
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCs29xBh13S
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For the first time, his reflection told no lies.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YIOdYUXsg
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He took another step. The ice held firm, though it looked thin enough to shatter under breath alone.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QdquBUJj1
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIvTEVKoQXM
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNUGjFTJeS
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And despite everything - the desolation, the silence, the bone-deep cold - something unexpected stirred in his chest.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjTTOYH4Nx
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‘Beautiful.’36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BqsEeWlnf
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The thought came unbidden, and Cel hated how true it was.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxrVe0yZks
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2cXjDdguH
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But the sun had never risen.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctipsR5xOw
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Instead, the moon had watched.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLE2RJf6gS
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He had known then. Even before the world told him. Even before the clan cast him aside.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRdwJ2AdPX
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He had never belonged to the Sun.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiFM2nuA3z
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7ZbdqmWEd
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Exposed. Vulnerable.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZwpQxBCWF
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And yet, he had never felt more alive.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSTJwbgu1a
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Cel lowered himself to his knees and bowed his head, hands folded.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUOHdJRCXj
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGL8kNB1eIT
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"Goddess of the Moon… heed my words." They left him without hesitation. No fear. No uncertainty. Only resolve.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWRv60PG2z
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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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsITBEKaLm
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Silence answered.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHF2ElqhbZY
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Then—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVd2aI3q8h
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Moonlight.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYZJsUszYY
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A beam of pure, blinding silver pierced down, bathing him and the ice beneath him in radiant white.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91oUqFIsTw
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The surface cracked.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡteW4Vpjj77
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTqE4UPKDi
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The cracks spread in every direction, fracturing the frozen sea into a thousand gleaming shards that somehow held together.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUzeepsOuKj
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4YHs1VrSjj
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQwhWa3AmY
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His breath stopped.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqr00eyDmPn
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Something vast swept through him.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4UpBSM9w8
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3IVFX6K4L
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwV98dQcxft
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He was neither falling nor rising. Suspended. Adrift in something greater, something beyond naming.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdUv7unvmg
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEOxinkV6e
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He was not bound.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgCNmoG4uvA
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He was not claimed.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdygsQJPyx
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He was seen.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXTdpZP5629
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHhHSqayPcz
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Cel's consciousness submerged in cold radiance. In the weight of something infinite and unknowable.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bxEQIezbu
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<<Rise, Chosen One.>> 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CtiVq0eiv
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Light flickered - once, twice - before vanishing entirely.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LbqD2uT6M
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The cracks sealed themselves. The ice returned to its perfect, unmarred surface, as if nothing had ever disturbed it.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhhVKVvakF
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Silence reclaimed the frozen sea.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07y6u5QTsW
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Cel opened his eyes.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBIfloKQF6J
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx0mikDiE9q
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The frozen sea remained beneath him - endless and still.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡragoFlqsZx
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Then it dissolved.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmi8RROASgr
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9YtGtqOme
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The sacred ground thrummed beneath his feet - a rhythm that matched something deep in his chest.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWK5fIlsslv
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He had returned.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsx091z6x7E
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His gaze dropped to his hands. 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2KaEvFtuG
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Cel froze.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBkuBg71xn
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxsHc98HghT
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Cel turned them over slowly, studying the transformation. Smooth skin replaced what had been translucent and fragile.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWn9YUpsgx
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His breath quickened.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmBnEoxLF6
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Fingers curled inward - slowly at first, then tighter - until nails bit into skin.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81VokwVQ7f
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The pressure was sharp and clear. His hands trembled with it.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4wI5Zrt09
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrcaCjxCNaF
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But these marks were different. Not born of desperation or decay. Born of strength.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwWiWdxhfE
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Of choice.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzuJN8bY9If
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXByXdEzkU4
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Cel touched his chest.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yhPVwGG3f
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzHGzOcPTtW
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He took a breath. Deep. Deeper than he'd managed in months.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F94IybEBV
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1FKEmHzHY
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Again. And again.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02Ke0cIhCS
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Each breath felt like discovery.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCxnBU0Q1Am
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBSXSyr6US
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Not dying.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBCpfsVXS7
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He ran his fingers through his hair—36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk282Ysv5Xz
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—and stopped.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4e1tNhxmV
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The texture was wrong.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZ9lxx4dFj
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Too soft. Too smooth. Like silk instead of the tangled, brittle mess he'd grown accustomed to.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmM7og3QcQ2
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Fingers closed around a strand and pulled. It snapped free. Cel brought it close, eyes narrowing.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLg7kVuJpAN
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White.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhu90mz4q5e
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Pure, luminous white - like freshly fallen snow catching moonlight.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7u3wYbLsIF
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His breath caught.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIHcJUjT3O
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MY3wZwAbD
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Gone was the dull brown he'd always known. This was something else entirely - a brand of divinity.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQyrdPRoXZh
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His hand dropped to his side.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrkXc1OFNv
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMakPkwLB8Q
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCmdQUMTWW
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No pain dragged at his movements. No exhaustion blurred his thoughts. No sickness hollowed him from within.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4szsyfwpqH
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He felt… whole.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pULMUMaNJ
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjQMdUBo1r
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His chest tightened - not with fear, rage or despair.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbav5O3yPY
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With something else.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTLjEZpZMyq
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Something that might have been gratitude, if he still remembered how that felt.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTE2rIA8dO
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His lips moved, barely a whisper, barely more than a breath.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwX6lciHue
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But here, in this sacred place, the words carried.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqNsFg3kjP
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"Thank you." 36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPZqOL6P90T
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For a single moment, the moonlight seemed to brighten.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5k3YZsKRjF
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Cel took a final breath, then stepped forward.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMt5MLoMGt
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His foot crossed the threshold of the circle.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTqvTGJnEj
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The air lightened around him as he emerged from the sacred ground.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVmljbxupk
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5qJdnb4TKy
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For a moment, neither of them moved.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLfaiiLTbG
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Then she stepped forward, closing the distance between them.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0pPZpQkpQ
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Her arms wrapped around him - gentle but firm, drawing him into an embrace that carried the warmth of genuine welcome.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYELkdI22c
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡds0gxxwzGi
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Selina's voice came soft against his ear, carrying the weight of something solemn and eternal.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbCveFtHgK
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