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A DISTANT COUSIN
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2026-09-18 07:00:40CHAPTER 118: A DISTANT COUSIN
The address Isolde had traced led to a farmhouse tucked into hills on the far side of the ocean, isolated enough that the team's arrival sent birds scattering from every tree along the winding dirt road leading up to it. Mira watched Auren's expression shift the closer they came, something between hope and old grief crossing his features as he studied the property with obvious recognition."You've been here before," she said."Decades a
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THE LUNA'S RETURN FROM EXILE A DISTANT COUSIN
CHAPTER 118: A DISTANT COUSINThe address Isolde had traced led to a farmhouse tucked into hills on the far side of the ocean, isolated enough that the team's arrival sent birds scattering from every tree along the winding dirt road leading up to it. Mira watched Auren's expression shift the closer they came, something between hope and old grief crossing his features as he studied the property with obvious recognition."You've been here before," she said."Decades ago," Auren admitted. "There was a small Solarii enclave in this region once. I assumed it had died out completely, the way so much of my people eventually did."They found the young man working in a garden behind the farmhouse, and Selene felt the same warm resonance she'd noticed around Auren the moment they came within sight of him, unmistakable now that she'd learned to recognize it properly."Solarii," she said quietly, and Auren nodded, already moving toward the fence line
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