Elara barely slept that night.The room assigned to her at the roadside inn was small but comfortable, with a narrow bed, a wooden wardrobe, and a single window overlooking the Blackwood Forest.Moonlight spilled across the floor.She remained awake beside the window, staring at the trees.Someone had watched her.She was certain of it.The voice had been calm, almost amused.Interesting.Two words.Yet they had been enough to make the hairs on her arms rise.Elara pulled the curtains shut.Maybe she had imagined it.Maybe exhaustion had made her paranoid.After all, she had died, awakened inside a novel, discovered she was an SSS-rank Guide, and nearly been eaten by a magical wolf within three days.Paranoia was probably reasonable.She climbed into bed.But sleep refused to come.Every time she closed her eyes, she remembered the Moonfang.Its pain.Its fear.And the strange warmth that had flowed through her when she touched it.That hadn't happened in the novel.Guides could stabi
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