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Forgotten
Author: MDW
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Seven years passed.

Xena was no longer the small girl clutching her brother’s pendant under starlit skies. She was now fourteen—fierce, brilliant, and full of questions. The seal that had imprisoned the Chronovore still stood, hidden beneath the ruins of the battlefield, covered by a shimmering layer of magic that Brown renewed every year.

But something was changing.

Xena could feel it in her bones.

The nights grew colder, even in summer. The sky sometimes shimmered with cracks only she could see. And once—just once—she heard the same haunting shriek that had once shaken the world.

Brown knew it too. His instincts were sharper than ever.

And Clara… Clara didn’t say much about it. But every night, she triple-checked Xena’s window. She never left the porch light off. She kissed her daughter’s forehead longer than necessary, and she kept a small blade tucked under her pillow.

Just in case.

---

One Morning

Xena sat alone in the abandoned temple ruins—her usual thinking spot.

She’d carved
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