Crown of Tempests
The late afternoon light hit her just right, catching in her hair, warming her skin, and making the faint shift in her silhouette impossible to ignore now.
There was no hiding it anymore. Not that she’d tried.
I watched her from across the room, arms loosely folded, attention split between her and the stack of parchment I’d left spread across the table behind me. Inked notes, copied texts, translated fragments from archives most people didn’t even know existed.
Hybrid gestation.
Dragon lineage anomalies.
Bloodline convergence under bonded triads.
Most of it had been buried for a reason.
That hadn’t stopped me.
“You’re staring,” Nora said without looking at me.
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