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CHAPTER 36

Author: DiamondE
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The air smelled like smoke. Just a little. It was coming in from a small crack in the window.

Elise sat outside, behind the healer’s place. Her back was resting on a big tree.

The sun wasn’t really out yet.

There was a little light in the sky, soft and slow, like it didn’t even want to rise.

Her cloak was on, but it wasn’t warm. She didn’t care.

She kept touching a loose thread on her sleeve. Just turning it in her fingers.

She’d been sitting there for over an hour.

She couldn’t sleep.

Not after what they saw.

Not after what the boy said.

Her eyes burned—not from tears, but from the weight of everything she didn’t understand.

The dreams.

The wolves.

The fear in everyone’s eyes.

And still, no one looked at her the same.

She was still the unstable one.

Still the outsider.

Powerless, yet somehow still dangerous in their eyes.

A door creaked open behind her.

Slow and firm footsteps were made across the wooden porch.

Elise didn’t turn until the person spoke.

“You always sit out here
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