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us, a quiet reminder of the

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ing inches from me, talking to me like I was just another

my father had buried the queen with cold fury in his heart and vengeance

sion. She was beautiful, yes. But that wasn't it. It was the way she listened like your wo

a monster in human skin. A threat

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out of her. "No

light of the flames. Her eyes searched mine

wed from the embers of my old self. I hated

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d softly, "Do you think

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emember things I shouldn't. Places that don't exist

of my hair st

d the noises and consistently began crying up

in front of me. But the woman from the vision crystal. Cloaked in

not evil

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care. Monster

ow easily her pain shook me. Hated how I

r a while, until the

ocket-the one from General Thorne reminding me that my target was c

ould I tu

I wanted to be the man she saw. Not the one hiding behind

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looked at her a

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was c