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Chapter 177

Author: Staecy
last update publish date: 2026-04-18 02:50:19

Lana's POV

Morwen's power presses against mine with the weight of centuries.

Everything I have developed in the last months, the Fox fire, the lightning, the truth-sight, all of it has been mine in the sense of recent acquisition. I have been working with it for a year at most. Feeling my way into the edges of it, learning what it responds to, what it refuses, what it is capable of in its current incomplete state. It is strong and real and mine, and it is absolutely insufficient against what Mo
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