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141. Moon above me
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2026-01-02 08:22:59Nalini
I woke with my name trapped behind my teeth.
The sound of it echoed in my skull, not as a word but as a pressure, like something had been spoken directly into bone and marrow and then erased halfway through. My breath came shallow, panicked, my chest tight as though I had been running for miles instead of lying in the narrow academy bed with pale moonlight spilling across my sheets.
Something had happened.
I knew that much with terrifying certainty.
The air still vibrated, faintly, as though the room remembered what I no longer could. My skin hummed. My wolf stirred beneath my ribs, restless and alert, pacing in small, tight circles. She was not confused the way I was. She felt…watchful. Guarded. As if she had been shown something precious and dangerous and now refused to let it go.
I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to grasp at fragments. A voice&
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