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The Bond Tested

Penulis: Abi Gail O
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-22 22:50:31

The first three days of travel were harder than Elara expected.

Not because of the journey itself, which was uneventful, the kind of travel that filled days with the rhythm of moving through territory and stopping and moving again. Harder because of what she felt at the edges of the rhythm, in the quiet moments before sleep and the early mornings before the day's movement began.

She missed Marco in a way that had a physical quality to it.

She had not expected the physical quality. She had expec
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