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Chapter Twenty One: A Desperate Plea

(Kaelia's POV)

"I love solitude," I say, a mantra I've repeated so often it feels like a truth. But the stars above me, cold and distant, seem to whisper a different story. Maybe I don't love solitude as much as I'm used to it. Maybe it's a shield I've constructed, one brick at a time, against a ...