Hearing their words, I shook my head on instinct."No—impossible—"My mother held Mia up, explaining weakly."The seal on this necklace runs too deep. It should've taken at least seven days to fully awaken it. Your father and I tried, but we couldn't speed it up. We planned to give you the incomplete necklace today. But Mia said if it couldn't be the most perfect ancestral power, then the necklace lost its meaning.""So from the day you came back, against everyone's protests, she used her own wolf to nourish that final seal."Mia's small hand caught my sleeve. She spoke."Sister, that night, I knew you were angry. I wanted to please you, so I brought you that dress. But you said you don't like pink."I nodded, forcing the words out."Yeah, Mia. I'm a warrior. I can't wear dresses, and I don't like pink—""No."She shook her head."Sister, when you were little—before you went to the warrior academy and went through all that brutal training—your closet was full of pink dresses.""Later,
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