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Chapter forty two: strange cub

Author: Asheeda max
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Everything felt different now. Freya avoided my eyes. She didn’t grip my hand when we walked. She flinched when I reached out for her, even if it was just to brush hair from her face. I wanted to ask her what was wrong, but every time I opened my mouth, something wasn't

Maybe I was afraid of the answer.

I couldn’t stop thinking about the dream. The battlefield. Her face. My sword. It felt too real—like I had lived it before. But that was impossible.

Wasn’t it?

I told myself it was just the stress. The cub. The strange voice. My mind playing tricks. But when I looked at Freya, I saw something I hadn’t seen in a long time.

Distance__And pain.

The kind that didn’t just go away.

I found her close to the river the next morning.

She was sitting on a rock, glancing into the water like it held some secret she was trying to remember. Her hair was messy. She hadn’t slept. I could tell.

I sat down beside her. She didn’t look at me.

“I had another dream,” I said.

Still no reply.

“I was holding a
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