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Snow kettle

Author: Lost in love
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*Isla*

By morning, the Academy behaves like nothing happened.

That is somehow worse.

The yard is swept. The blood is gone. The frost-bitten patch where the thing died has been covered with fresh sand. Cadets from other companies complain about breakfast and sore backs and stolen socks as if a nightmare did not break from the trees twelve hours ago.

The Nightshade knows better. We move around each other with a new alertness, rougher and closer. Tomas checks every tree line before he sits. Bran c
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