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Chapter 66 — Dreams of the Moon

Author: Bellaberry
last update publish date: 2026-10-03 03:30:15

POV: Kira

The dreams began the night after I named the fear.

They did not arrive as nightmares. They arrived as silver.

I stood in an open field that was not any field I had ever walked in life. The grass beneath my bare feet glowed faintly, as if each blade had been dipped in moonlight and left to dry. Above me the sky held only one presence—the full moon, vast and close enough that I could see the slow, tidal movement of light across its surface. No stars. No darkness. Only the moon and the s
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