SELENAI moved toward them in unhurried steps, my boots pressing lightly into the soft earth, each pace deliberate, as though the weight of the moment itself slowed me down. My eyes shifted between Lucian and Lilith, and though I told myself to look away, I couldn’t. She was here—after all this time, after the shadow she had cast over my life—and she was as I remembered, yet altered in ways that made me pause. Her frame had grown leaner, not with the grace of someone training or thriving, but in the weary way of a person who has been walking too long with a burden they can’t set down. Her posture, though still upright, lacked the steel she once carried in her spine, and the proud tilt of her chin was nowhere to be found.Lucian’s gaze lingered on me as I approached, deep and unreadable, like there were words already formed in his mind that he had chosen not to speak—at least not yet. The warriors stood still, silent as carved stone, their watchful eyes shifting between us, as if they
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