Cel's heart quickened.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQDsdkbQT2
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"What do I need to do?" he asked. "A chant? A ritual?"172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNYHpmQ2RB
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Selina shook her head. "No, there is no need for that. You only need to pray."172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwryIizAwDx
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He hesitated.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvt7TxtdEK
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"Pray for what?"172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMosmplEvFV
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"Pray for whatever you desire, whatever you wish for, and whatever you long for."172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcCMyL9juWr
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Cel frowned. That was it? No structured words, no guidance?172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡii7zmVHsWg
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanPeRp25YI
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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…172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW9MiGzUGzF
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The thought didn't linger. His mind had already made its decision, long before he even stepped into this place.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7hfMXAmHH
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Without another word, Cel moved forward.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFS0eAvMkRt
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The moment he crossed into the circle of flowers, the air changed.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9tIKx3Sy1
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo0kAOrDTG0
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhhy0WqgAy
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His breath came slow and steady. He stepped into the heart of the circle. 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenGoQ6XRvx
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The moonlight swallowed him whole. 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN17xjS5O82
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Suddenly, the world dissolved.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2u19HtTjN
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7tm45nCUg
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Then—stillness.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWO8MGlVtiW
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A frozen sea stretched endlessly before him.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfJKYzfa1O
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Cel's breath caught.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOZcCl8RBQ
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1Wb7PrVzo
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He took a step forward.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanm5e3NXFN
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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. 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxPxmivZRa
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZ89rohSDv
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For the first time, his reflection told no lies.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKYqVAaZ9I
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He took another step. The ice held firm, though it looked thin enough to shatter under breath alone.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCKj8tFDPX
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsjMe1WnOf
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUFdHvIPEX
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And despite everything - the desolation, the silence, the bone-deep cold - something unexpected stirred in his chest.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduuJIpBdo6
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‘Beautiful.’172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFJj2eaACf
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The thought came unbidden, and Cel hated how true it was.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfV8cE7LOR3
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5KXNQouiS
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But the sun had never risen.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKtteQXudk
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Instead, the moon had watched.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZmdtsyEUJF
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He had known then. Even before the world told him. Even before the clan cast him aside.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1Yfk8kD77
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He had never belonged to the Sun.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPvCP7SjA4r
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJilUipzHSK
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Exposed. Vulnerable.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygntZmLsNG
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And yet, he had never felt more alive.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡISgRERaGdH
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Cel lowered himself to his knees and bowed his head, hands folded.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa3nZGciJT
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJYbLVoKzy
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"Goddess of the Moon… heed my words." They left him without hesitation. No fear. No uncertainty. Only resolve.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3OObgBtcm
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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."172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWo7OHMEtzd
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Silence answered.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5Kltr1wTw
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Then—172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpF94Bo2s9q
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Moonlight.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZ1eSZO2oZ
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A beam of pure, blinding silver pierced down, bathing him and the ice beneath him in radiant white.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDgIR4Sgukf
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The surface cracked.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQi83OKPbqy
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWuTSGHWmi
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The cracks spread in every direction, fracturing the frozen sea into a thousand gleaming shards that somehow held together.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3Fc3oGWjA
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kpyg73Aww
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRWq2IT6zpV
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His breath stopped.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QMftxLCuM
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Something vast swept through him.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ955WMa8bP2
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVrQRs9vzyV
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4ipxoIlCh
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He was neither falling nor rising. Suspended. Adrift in something greater, something beyond naming.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhP3QClUiGM
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdUP2vsbHz
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He was not bound.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNK3z1Us4ii
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He was not claimed.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70cujRuaAA
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He was seen.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBp6brKDm4K
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD5GjE2alTh
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Cel's consciousness submerged in cold radiance. In the weight of something infinite and unknowable.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡufck0HXzmI
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<<Rise, Chosen One.>> 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTR7SF9yHj
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Light flickered - once, twice - before vanishing entirely.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfyr9Lu1ug
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The cracks sealed themselves. The ice returned to its perfect, unmarred surface, as if nothing had ever disturbed it.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqZsjTXT9FV
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Silence reclaimed the frozen sea.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdF6w1faRKR
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Cel opened his eyes.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGjH4oD6EM
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloA9gFV1tp
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The frozen sea remained beneath him - endless and still.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNTJmM0EbsH
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Then it dissolved.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu4TDMNtYpM
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXx76Hiy91
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The sacred ground thrummed beneath his feet - a rhythm that matched something deep in his chest.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YIF27l1RI
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He had returned.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANUe93f6tJ
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His gaze dropped to his hands. 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHmQknqFSb
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Cel froze.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj1I4mkBNnl
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaNxqzz1mc
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Cel turned them over slowly, studying the transformation. Smooth skin replaced what had been translucent and fragile.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0DThgDTEgb
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His breath quickened.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8KUWxJjhO
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Fingers curled inward - slowly at first, then tighter - until nails bit into skin.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFzJZzuf8g
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The pressure was sharp and clear. His hands trembled with it.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzHsT14FE3
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRFI6rItbO
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But these marks were different. Not born of desperation or decay. Born of strength.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIyKAsSOHn
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Of choice.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6SdYPqyfRX
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXdkAvMaMX
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Cel touched his chest.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFQ2hyHWUfy
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pvf3acbIm
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He took a breath. Deep. Deeper than he'd managed in months.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt12ffIehjl
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH4ogF7XKtz
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Again. And again.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2TABkVwUR
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Each breath felt like discovery.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1oBOHAAzZ6
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtnmS11KA4
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Not dying.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxiOxRpJdO
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He ran his fingers through his hair—172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxXi9r5yL2
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—and stopped.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGCSxH1nzW
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The texture was wrong.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOadNKtnU7
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Too soft. Too smooth. Like silk instead of the tangled, brittle mess he'd grown accustomed to.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYojQrEqKRT
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Fingers closed around a strand and pulled. It snapped free. Cel brought it close, eyes narrowing.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOELJdcB9yG
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White.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6ZUt0bT3o
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Pure, luminous white - like freshly fallen snow catching moonlight.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSSNujE7wu
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His breath caught.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI0aXPCWkeo
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBQCbfO516
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Gone was the dull brown he'd always known. This was something else entirely - a brand of divinity.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2c6mM4QBvw
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His hand dropped to his side.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTqlRiuQ3W
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzv34rJ5YAy
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjTx7WgmRCp
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No pain dragged at his movements. No exhaustion blurred his thoughts. No sickness hollowed him from within.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC0kAXiQs5v
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He felt… whole.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xhWJAHGAc
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoR8IwiTwqy
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His chest tightened - not with fear, rage or despair.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZZ5joFnPe
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With something else.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ah4vKTtpI
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Something that might have been gratitude, if he still remembered how that felt.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXyGqhLST9
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His lips moved, barely a whisper, barely more than a breath.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcaOTe0zVHU
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But here, in this sacred place, the words carried.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuodbo70id
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"Thank you." 172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGx9Sg8KvSQ
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For a single moment, the moonlight seemed to brighten.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrBQcJPA46F
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Cel took a final breath, then stepped forward.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHctJZsFX1
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His foot crossed the threshold of the circle.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO63SV8tC9V
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The air lightened around him as he emerged from the sacred ground.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJdRigDjkjQ
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZf4aTtiPv
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For a moment, neither of them moved.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQPEcZpqApw
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Then she stepped forward, closing the distance between them.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAtXHZ752Zb
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Her arms wrapped around him - gentle but firm, drawing him into an embrace that carried the warmth of genuine welcome.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3R81j64jfD
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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.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvK1BK5LzYK
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Selina's voice came soft against his ear, carrying the weight of something solemn and eternal.172Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrAKmCVmH9
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