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Of Caution And Flame

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Alejandro’s POV

My little moonlight is unusually quiet today. She has not said much all morning. But I can tell that it is not because something is wrong, but because something has changed. And...it's a good and comfortable kind of change.

Zenith hums softly as she draws in her sketchbook, curled on the porch bench beneath a woven blanket. Her skin glows with that same dream light she carried when she woke, and every once in a while, she presses her fingers to her sternum like she’s checking t
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