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The Shape of What Could Have Been
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Fractured After the Storm, the Skin
SeleneThe oppressive atmosphere that had clung to the clearing like a shroud finally began to dissipate. It wasn’t a sudden vanishing act—no triumphant flare of light, no dramatic snap of banishment—just a slow, reluctant retreat, like a tide dragging itself backward after realizing the shore wouldn’t break.Selene drew a shaky breath and tasted pine, damp soil, and something faintly metallic—residual magic, still sharp at the back of her throat. Her palm throbbed with a phantom ache where the Moonpetal Bloom used to rest. She kept flexing her fingers as if she could convince her body it hadn’t lost anything.But her hand stayed empty.Mirra stood beside her, no longer swaying. The woman’s posture remained composed, but Selene could feel the thinness in her aura—like the earth’s song had been lowered to a distant hum. Ronan was quiet too. Not haunted, exactly. Still. Like someone who had stared down a depth that wanted to swallow him and came back with a new respect for what he carri
Fractured What Remains When the Shadows Leave
SeleneWhen the last reflection collapsed into shadow, Selene expected the relief to come rushing in like rain after a drought.It didn’t.The clearing simply… returned.The trees were trees again, not watchers. The air was air again, not a living throat trying to swallow their thoughts. The grass lay flattened in the places where illusions had taken shape, as if the world itself had been forced to brace during the entity’s performances.And Selene—Selene stood in the center of it with her hands empty.She stared at her palms like something might still be written there. A faint impression. A ghost of petals.The Moonpetal Bloom had always felt like an extension of her—warm when she was calm, sharp when she was afraid, humming in sympathetic rhythm with the phases overhead. Losing it hadn’t been dramatic. There had been no bright explosion, no clean ending. It had been quieter than she would have expected.That was what made it worse.Because the quiet made it real.She flexed her fing
Fractured Anchors in the Dark
RonanThe silence after the illusions faded wasn’t peaceful.It felt like the breath held between lightning and thunder.Ronan didn’t move right away. His gaze stayed fixed on the place where his reflection had dissolved, as if the darkness might seep back into the clearing if he looked away too quickly.He could still feel it.The pressure.The cold weight of the abyss pressing in from every direction, the echo of water in his lungs, the helpless pull of something vast and indifferent. The entity had shown him the worst version of his fear—power without connection, strength without direction, an ocean with no shore to crash against.And the worst part was how familiar it had felt.He remembered the first time he’d realized how easily he could lose control. How the tides inside him never truly rested. How leadership meant standing alone more often than anyone ever admitted. He remembered nights on empty cliffs, staring at violent water and wondering if the storm understood him better
Fractured The Mirror of What We’d Be
SeleneThe air didn’t feel like air anymore.It felt like aftershock—like the world was still remembering what they’d just done to survive.Selene stared down at her hands. They looked the same. Pale knuckles, faint smudges of dirt at the creases, a thin scratch across one finger she couldn’t remember earning. Normal hands.But they felt wrong.Empty.The phantom weight of the Moonpetal Bloom sat in her palm like a bruise, as if her skin still expected the warm pulse of it, the familiar precision it gave her when she called the moon’s light into shape.Beside her, Mirra swayed once, just slightly, then steadied herself with a stubborn lift of her chin. Selene could feel it—how Mirra’s connection to the earth, usually a steady song under everything, was now a thinned thread. Not gone. Not broken. Just… distant. Like a voice on the other end of a long corridor.And Ronan—Ronan stood like he always did, shoulders squared, jaw set, body trying to pretend nothing shook him.But Selene had
Fractured The Cost of Staying
MirraThe entity didn’t shout.It didn’t need to.Its voice became the environment—rustling, dying leaves, the groan of splintered wood, the sound of a forest breaking under its own weight. It wrapped around Mirra’s ears until she couldn’t tell what was real and what was being fed into her skull.“See, Mirra?” it crooned, and the words carried the sickening texture of rot. “The earth’s fury, unleashed. You felt its pain. Its betrayal. This is what it means to be truly of the earth. Let go of your gentleness. Your compassion. Become the earthquake. The storm. The unstoppable force that reshapes the world through destruction.”Mirra’s reflection stood ahead of her like a threat made flesh—eyes cold, hands slick with an emerald corruption that didn’t belong to any living soil. Tendrils of light snapped and lashed like whips. The Heartwood Grove, in the background, looked like something that had been murdered slowly. Trees bent the wrong way. Bark split and blackened. Leaves curled tight
Fractured The Echoes They Refused
SeleneThe clearing didn’t feel like a place anymore. It felt like a stage—one built specifically to humiliate them.Before them, the air warped and shimmered, a canvas painted with their deepest anxieties. Selene’s breath hitched as a figure began to form, coalescing from stray moonbeams and the lingering shadows of her recent loss.It was her.And it wasn’t.This Selene was bathed in a blinding lunar radiance, the Moonpetal Bloom still clutched in her fist, its glow amplified to a scorching intensity. Her eyes, usually calm, looked fever-bright—possessive, hungry. There was no softness in her expression. No humor. No hesitation. Just certainty so sharp it almost looked like cruelty.She didn’t look at Ronan. She didn’t look at Mirra.She looked through them.Like they were furniture in a room she’d outgrown.The air around the reflection crackled with raw lunar energy, so concentrated it made Selene’s teeth ache. That power was familiar. It had been hers. It had sat under her skin l
