Cel's heart quickened.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXA87L6tbe0
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"What do I need to do?" he asked. "A chant? A ritual?"137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzmLcpobPT
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Selina shook her head. "No, there is no need for that. You only need to pray."137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuclcDBH2SL
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He hesitated.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurg1eMBgRk
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"Pray for what?"137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotooev89FI
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"Pray for whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, and whatever you long for."137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaw3ALqqRyS
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Cel frowned. That was it? No structured words, no guidance?137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoWSm7WgaDv
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAU1Ftir9X
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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…137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYNiN50iqu
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The thought didn't linger. His mind had already made its decision, long before he even stepped into this place.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtMzcLXwkX
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Without another word, Cel moved forward.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1UHT0ImS8
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The moment he crossed into the circle of flowers, the air changed.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN9zwbqzc8
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRwHv09IgSd
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd0cz2rSvsJ
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His breath came slow and steady. He stepped into the heart of the circle. 137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq6PSgtMp6h
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The moonlight swallowed him whole. 137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQI1kNPaJP
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Suddenly, the world dissolved.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡladT8tSDbV
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZcWZbrcke
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Then—stillness.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74Nt5a1bL5
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A frozen sea stretched endlessly before him.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMypokZYf2T
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Cel's breath caught.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4N90bVZtt0
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfGT7AU9ZIe
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He took a step forward.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoP5fT97XVZ
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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. 137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVrsMmkuHi
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHeDja1jWtu
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For the first time, his reflection told no lies.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyV0eewPrrq
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He took another step. The ice held firm, though it looked thin enough to shatter under breath alone.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO0fpAdhvqW
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8kIoEzrcTF
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJavUlgD1yz
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And despite everything - the desolation, the silence, the bone-deep cold - something unexpected stirred in his chest.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBk52ngZAY
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‘Beautiful.’137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFfqUJzylgP
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The thought came unbidden, and Cel hated how true it was.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡomYnsONpxa
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNvNGsG0q60
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But the sun had never risen.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGg1P4hvJHQ
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Instead, the moon had watched.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIAehZC7r3
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He had known then. Even before the world told him. Even before the clan cast him aside.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgDwuWmyg4u
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He had never belonged to the Sun.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBkvIFCvmLh
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTO7f1WEXEL
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Exposed. Vulnerable.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMzvVzDDXV
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And yet, he had never felt more alive.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7b1WXvMb8
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Cel lowered himself to his knees and bowed his head, hands folded.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3tlfrwoWE
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAF4GacjKhh
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"Goddess of the Moon… heed my words." They left him without hesitation. No fear. No uncertainty. Only resolve.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfe8fkLfIzC
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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."137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNdegUpwm4
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Silence answered.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbynl95Co4P
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Then—137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWmLVnajRb
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Moonlight.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHki8a08X8
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A beam of pure, blinding silver pierced down, bathing him and the ice beneath him in radiant white.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6sXkt1hfJu
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The surface cracked.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ866aZzkpyu
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdopra9b4uv
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The cracks spread in every direction, fracturing the frozen sea into a thousand gleaming shards that somehow held together.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdkUIU7Gq6
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUyp1Rr5Ht
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOx195P2Rup
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His breath stopped.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEsQbSOiR5o
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Something vast swept through him.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcRApk7pML
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5D7RDKsLMh
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqFVCytwvJ
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He was neither falling nor rising. Suspended. Adrift in something greater, something beyond naming.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBwxECf3Cq
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDoZKxvLv7y
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He was not bound.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC31DOEDY4T
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He was not claimed.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDL7R3Be9Uw
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He was seen.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMzVmLrDAG
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyvir8k3q3
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Cel's consciousness submerged in cold radiance. In the weight of something infinite and unknowable.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnKwG43sRP
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Light flickered - once, twice - before vanishing entirely.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZqREUWQaE
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The cracks sealed themselves. The ice returned to its perfect, unmarred surface, as if nothing had ever disturbed it.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QeJ7KsQDy
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Silence reclaimed the frozen sea.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUPDACFzil
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Cel opened his eyes.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4GeNcbo8Kz
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv407ki6cFQ
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The frozen sea remained beneath him - endless and still.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7o6qiINDH
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Then it dissolved.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5n2uKoiX4B
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHBNnywHou
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The sacred ground thrummed beneath his feet - a rhythm that matched something deep in his chest.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONcuTYFMp2
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He had returned.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyrQrfj7yG
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His gaze dropped to his hands. 137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9gUHA59JGb
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Cel froze.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFpuMK2QBi
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquDa7G6ix2
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Cel turned them over slowly, studying the transformation. Smooth skin replaced what had been translucent and fragile.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ImNvyBQYZ
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His breath quickened.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ6l9Q4gwe
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Fingers curled inward - slowly at first, then tighter - until nails bit into skin.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gEAOaxpz2
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The pressure was sharp and clear. His hands trembled with it.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSoIANFAfV
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8h8qoKebJ
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But these marks were different. Not born of desperation or decay. Born of strength.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUWgRLImLp
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Of choice.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8baZ44Ds7
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58TRii54Lw
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Cel touched his chest.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbk1oTeZLZ1
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GQ0BzXDWa
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He took a breath. Deep. Deeper than he'd managed in months.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgRkugnE2V
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NTJHOSKfl
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Again. And again.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8u91aiQpb
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Each breath felt like discovery.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD1yN1X0JcX
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJPrGPo5JZ
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Not dying.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixqCigGNkV
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He ran his fingers through his hair—137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1WNVHmnty
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—and stopped.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCZguu6r27
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The texture was wrong.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LxtkvcM89
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Too soft. Too smooth. Like silk instead of the tangled, brittle mess he'd grown accustomed to.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPCFXLeeb7d
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Fingers closed around a strand and pulled. It snapped free. Cel brought it close, eyes narrowing.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVITpgeEW3m
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White.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGqFu0czsF
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Pure, luminous white - like freshly fallen snow catching moonlight.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1tMGCuR5P
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His breath caught.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRyoTOt4En
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvmw5QmO1RT
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Gone was the dull brown he'd always known. This was something else entirely - a brand of divinity.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFxZQSPeI0
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His hand dropped to his side.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZ1eQMXcQI
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctEft8xhaM
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34159sNylJ
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No pain dragged at his movements. No exhaustion blurred his thoughts. No sickness hollowed him from within.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjYj45alWg
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He felt… whole.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYSfx3tchB
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgSWbvz59g
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His chest tightened - not with fear, rage or despair.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtt4xYyVDGQ
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With something else.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxzM4ZSKa9
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Something that might have been gratitude, if he still remembered how that felt.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkELgJ6DTi
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His lips moved, barely a whisper, barely more than a breath.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjdP5baPs0R
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But here, in this sacred place, the words carried.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBf66cRXEI
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"Thank you." 137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8dIJhQDPt4
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For a single moment, the moonlight seemed to brighten.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡckHDwwp2MB
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Cel took a final breath, then stepped forward.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ66brdF2XA5
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His foot crossed the threshold of the circle.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8h6bEvc7IQ
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The air lightened around him as he emerged from the sacred ground.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyktvSS3PzT
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6Q4CxYJuh
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For a moment, neither of them moved.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOlZWFRwyn
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Then she stepped forward, closing the distance between them.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLe0mLMpspP
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Her arms wrapped around him - gentle but firm, drawing him into an embrace that carried the warmth of genuine welcome.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiqlwcfHXU
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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.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqEnNZurEHN
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Selina's voice came soft against his ear, carrying the weight of something solemn and eternal.137Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29KO5hqtDz
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