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Chapter 225
Author: Perfect Pen
last update2025-05-31 19:55:30

It began with a shiver.

Not a cold one. Not a nervous one. Something else. Something ancient—older than skin and older than blood. A tremor that ran down the axis of the world and up the vertebrae of the one who carried its curse.

Selene stood in the half-light of a broken dawn, in a world patched together by too many hands. The air around her was too still, like a held breath, or a moment suspended in the margins of time. Her breath caught—not from pain, but from memory. Not hers alone, but something bigger. Heavier. Collected.

Her fingers trembled, as if sensing what her mind had not yet allowed itself to know.

And then—steadied.

Then trembled again.

Reality warped around her heartbeat. Every second seemed to last a lifetime. The wind refused to stir. The birds that had once nested in the skeletal remains of the ancient trees did not sing. Even the sun dared only peek halfway through the clouds, as if unwilling to fully witness what she was becoming.

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