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Moonlit Meal

Penulis: Tyson Roy
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-04 02:10:13

Chapter 204: Moonlit Meal

The community courtyard at the heart of Moonrise was bathed in a luminous, pearlescent glow. The moon hung low and heavy in the sky, a perfect silver coin resting against the dark velvet of the night. It was a stark contrast to the brilliant, blazing heat of the bonfires that dotted the slate paved plaza.

Tonight was not a festival marking a specific celestial event or the turning of a season. It was simply a celebratio

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    The training grounds of Moonrise had never sounded like this before. Once, the air had been filled only with the grunts of boys, the bark of commanders, the heavy thud of fists against dirt. Now, the space was alive with something brighter—laughter, wild and fierce, spilling over the old stone mark

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    The first pale light of dawn brushed the mountains, streaking the sky in gold and rose. From the high balcony above Moonrise, the valley seemed to sleep still—stone roofs curled in smoke, winding lanes hushed in dream. Only the embers in the square below betrayed what had happened the night before:

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    Twilight lay a lavender hush over Moonrise’s courtyard, painting the stone paths in long blue shadows. The great fire pit smoldered at the square’s center, its embers waiting for nightfall, its glow reflected in the eyes of wolves gathering one by one. They were not drawn by hunger or celebration,

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