Moonlit Secrets
When they finally broke through the tree line, the forest edge memorial site opened up before them.
It was a bleak, beautiful expanse of frost-covered earth, dotted with small, unmarked cairns of river stone. The wind off the cliff face was brutal here, stripping the trees of their needles and howling a constant, mourning song through the empty branches. Yet, scattered across the frozen dirt, the bright, resilient crimson petals of Aria’s winter-roses pushed through the frost, defiant against the cold.
Sienna stopped at the edge of the clearing. Her knees buckled slightly, but she caught herself, letting out a jagged, breathless sob.
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