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Chapter 109: Their Own Paths

Auteur: Ufuoma Daniel
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-19 06:15:07

Luca announced it on a Sunday morning.

Not as a request. As a statement. He came downstairs with the specific directness he brought to things he had decided and sat at the kitchen table where Elara and Kael were having coffee and said: I want to train as a warrior.

Elara looked at him.

He was ten years old. The supernatural equivalent of ten, which Theron assessed as developmentally significant, the stage where identity began crystallizing into something more durable than the fluid exploration
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