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The Proof

Author: Loria Malf
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Seraphina’s POV

I couldn’t go on like this—not knowing who I was or what was happening inside me.

I couldn’t keep breaking apart every time I transformed.

I couldn’t keep being afraid of my own blood.

The Moonbane legacy had cost me too much already—my childhood, my mother, my place in the world. It had asked for my silence, then punished me for not speaking louder. It had turned me into something feared, coveted, controlled.

But I wasn’t going to let it steal clarity, too.

Not anymore.

Tonight, under this cursed red moon, something had shifted. Something in the Blood Mirror had opened—responded.

And I wasn’t going to waste it.

Velna and Professor Dryden had left already. They'd both made it clear they wouldn't interfere with what came next. That this wasn't their space to step into.

Dryden had even said it outright:

“If she chooses to speak, she won’t want an audience.”

And so I was alone.

In this cold, sigil-lined tower, lit only by the dying gleam of the mirror’s frame and the bloo
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