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Chapter 11: Beneath Ice and Flame

Penulis: JanayJourney
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-01-04 01:03:11

The Rogue Lands did not pause to applaud Luna’s first clumsy flickers of power.

Hunger still gnawed.

Cold still crept in with every dusk.

Predators still watched from shadow and branch.

Yet as the days passed after the gully and the rogue, the ember in her chest felt less like a stranger and more like a restless companion—always there, always pressing, as if impatient with how slow her hands and mind were to catch up.

She began to *train*.

Not with wooden swords in a packed dirt ring under an A
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