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19 - Like a Gift

Author: Grace Kara
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-10-03 07:32:47

Another tray of food had appeared. Winter hadn’t heard anyone enter or leave.

One moment, the table was bare; the next, a plate of cold, sliced meat, another apple, and a hunk of bread sat waiting. It was delivered by ghosts. Or by the scowling old woman, Elspeth, who moved like one.

Winter hadn’t slept. Not really.

she had drifted in a state of terrified, waking nightmares, every creak of the ancient Citadel sounding like his footstep outside her door. She had paced the vast, empty rooms un
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