REJECTED LUNA MARKED WITH A CURSE
Inside shimmered a pale blue essence, slow-moving like captured moonlight.
“This is not poison or medicine,” she said softly. “It is remembrance. It holds the strength of who you were and who you survived to become. When doubt finds you, touch it.”
Something broke gently inside my chest.
“These gifts,” Thalor said, rising, “are not bribes for you to return.”
“They are proof,” Frado added, “that you already rule us.”
I smiled then, slow, deep, unbroken.
Not the smile of a girl once rejected,
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