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مؤلف: Kiera Wolfe
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*Chapter 46:

A year passed.

No alarms. No blood on the gates. No shards waking up in the dark.

The valley changed slowly. Like it had forgotten how to be afraid and was learning how to be alive again.

Aria walked through the market at midday, no guards, no escort. Kids ran past her, shouting about a new game. A Mooncrest blacksmith shared a stall with a Northern fur trader. No one bowed. No one knelt. They just nodded, and said her name like it belonged to someone ordinary.

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