RECLAIMING THEIR EX-BREEDER
Beyond the walls, the forest stood black against a sky finally clear, and the moon hung over it, full and white and ordinary.
I had spent so long certain that the moon hated me.
I leaned on the cold stone of the rail and breathed. In. Out. The first breath in a long time with no fear underneath it.
The door opened behind me. I did not turn. I knew their step by now … one heavier, one quieter, the two halves of the thing I had almost died without.
"You vanished," Blade said.
"I needed the air."
Brynn came to the rail on one side of me. Blade took the other. For a while, none of us spoke. We only looked out at the dark, and the fires and the sleeping pack, and the moonlight lay over all of it,
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