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The Insignia

Author: Hafy
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-11 23:57:39

MIRA'S POV

I'm the only one left in the laundry room. The other Omegas that were also assigned here with me have done their part and left. As I fold some linens, my eyes drift to where Selene's clothes have been placed to be folded.

Selene’s laundry smells faintly of cedar and iron. I sigh, she's been fighting again. She has a pattern these days. Sometimes she trains with the warriors in the morning, and in the afternoon she does chores and then vanishes for hours until it is almost nighttime, and then she comes back quieter than before. I tell myself that I don’t notice anything, that it's not my place to ask.

But as I pick up Selene’s clothes, my fingers brush something rough under one of the fabrics. It makes me pause.

I remove it from the rest and keep the others aside. It’s a patch of old cloth. It’s a bit stiff and has uneven stitchings. I lift it up to my eye level, and the air seems to still. It’s a sigil, a crescent moon entwined with thorns, faded from age but unmis
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