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CHAPTER 8: "POSSESSION"

last update publish date: 2025-10-25 23:23:39

Thunder rumbled low in the distance as Elara stirred from sleep.

The dim gray light of a stormy morning filtered through her curtains, casting elongated shadows on the walls of her room.

Her body was unusually warm beneath the sheets, and as she blinked the haze from her eyes, she caught a strange sensation almost like a soft burn on her wrist.

She sat up slowly.

Her room was silent, the air was thick, humming with energy.

When she turned her wrist over, her breath caught.

There, on the soft
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