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49- Mirror therapy

Author: Ahsia Risan
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-28 21:38:03

Arielle.

The days blurred into weeks and still every morning before the sun had even fully pushed its face over the horizon they dragged me out of bed and shoved me toward the training grounds.

The air was always too cold and my bones always too heavy and though I tried to stand tall, my steps always dragged. My body ached in places I didn’t even know could hurt the soreness burrowing deep in my thighs my arms trembling with weakness and my back constantly throbbing under the weight of the little life I carried.

No matter how many times Thomas demonstrated a stance, no matter how carefully he repeated the movements my body refused to obey. My legs wobbled when they were supposed to be firm and my fists opened when they were supposed to stay tight and my balance collapsed like I had never walked on two feet before.

And though Kael’s shadowy presence at the edges of the field always kept the laughter from growing too loud, the whispers still reached me. The word bastard hung in the
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