Luna's Last Oath
Wolves Nicole trusted or at least tried to.
The silence after their plotting was worse than the words themselves. She heard their footsteps retreat, the scrape of the chamber door closing, and then nothing but her own heart hammering against her ribs. Elara didn’t move. She couldn’t. Her body felt rooted, her mind warring with itself. Tell Nicole, stay silent, she kept debating. She had lived her whole life by silence. The quiet girl. The overlooked one. The shadow in the corner. It had kept her safe when whispers turned cruel, when the weight of others’ power pressed too heavily for her to resist. If she went to Nicole now,.if she spoke she would no longer be invisible. She would be marked
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