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11. Amends
September 2026,
Ovzdusia, Soare-Luna Kingdom
Katerina
My eyes quickly filled up with tears. "You really are alive."
Her chin trembled, she gave me a tumultuous smile, and her eyes welled up. She nodded, unable to say anything.
The next thing I knew, we were hugging each other. I hugged her tighter. I couldn't believe that she was here. That she was alive. I was right. After all this time...after all those people calling me delusional for coming up with 'conspiracy theories'... after giving up...I found her. I found Alyanna. My heart was full and my throat had a lump lodged in it. My tears seemed unstoppable. I couldn't believe that she was real.
I pulled away and looked at her again. I couldn't stop looking at her. She looked the same and yet different somehow. More mature, more...subdued. She wasn't the same lively girl she was once. Of course, she wasn't.
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