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Chapter 50 A Clue in the Woods

ผู้เขียน: Aurora Lee
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Seraphina

The feeling woke me before the light did.

Not fear.

Not urgency.

Just… direction.

My eyes opened slowly to the gray wash of morning filtering through the balcony doors. The castle was quiet at this hour. Even the guards’ rotations were softer, as if the world hadn’t fully committed to being awake.

But something in me had.

Go.

The word wasn’t spoken, not in sound or language. It lived somewhere lower than thought. A pull—not toward danger, not toward panic—but toward a place I had not
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