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The Poisoned Choice
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2026-08-24 08:30:23Haydee
Lucien had the answer by morning, and I hated all of it.
The black in our marks was Moonborn work, fed by Moonborn blood, and there was only one loose source of it in the whole north.
Selene's.
The old blood, drawn in the days when my daughter was still a weapon, the blood I thought had all been accounted for. Lucien traced the working to a single stolen vial, and I remembered, cold to my bones, the thing I had seen in a Bloodpine h
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