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up from the straw mat before sunrise, dropped a p

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didn't change. "T

m rock and shadow - a sunless pit surrounded by thorn

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locked

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-

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d. That same wall still stood between h

arby, arms cro

and slammed her fist into th

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could react

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arm. Pain bloomed. H

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er throat, but this

as f

Her vision blurred. Her voice echoe

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-

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s, panting. Her hands pulsed

rged fully... but t

, wiping blood fr

still shaking. "I c

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didn't

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rimson Moon Pack

ad of the council tabl

"We found the bodies - the

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through the seate

one scoffed. "Are we really a

tious? Absolutely. She carries the blood of t

his fist in

l her. Before

e at that table

-

e

archives beneath the Alpha's chambers. They

ealed vault - the one marked wi

true lineage. Her father's de

n wasn't just a tyra

the scroll away

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-

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alone beneath the rune tree, her

ared of yourself

tu

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ow not to be," s

ed her

in - and next time, I won't

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Chapt