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Chapter 21 : Looking Forward

Author: Pixie Snow
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-15 20:44:08

Nyxar POV

Few days later the castle felt different as dawn bled into full morning. Lighter. Sharper. Alive.

Nyxar followed a half-step behind Lyra as they moved through the winding halls, the scent of stone and old banners stirring under the breath of the early wind. Guards saluted as they passed, servants kept their heads bowed, but none of that mattered to him. Not today.

What mattered was her.

For months, perhaps longer, he had stood at her side - sometimes her shield, sometimes her shadow. But always, always carrying the weight of distance between them. Duty, grief, unspoken fears. All of it a space they both danced around. Until now.

Now, for the first time, there was no distance. No court to separate them. No throne, no council, no kingdom binding them into careful roles.

Only the road ahead.

The thought made his pulse stir with something dangerously close to joy.

He glanced at Lyra, watching how the sunlight kissed her hair as they stepped into the training courtyard where thei
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