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The sound of snarling and teeth snapping shut snapped the young woman from her sleep eyes wide open with fear reflecting in their dark green coloring. Sitting up she placed a hand to her head closing her eyes as she took slow breaths trying to calm her pounding heart and shaking body. That was the worst nightmare she had ever had. Lana was motionless for some moments before moving as she threw the blankets back and stood stumbling her way to the balcony doors.362Please respect copyright.PENANA8ATCzuU48c
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Throwing them open she stumbled out onto the wet stone, taking in the cool night air wet with the rain from the previous storm leaving the air quiet and wet. She didn’t care she was barefoot or that its surface was slippery when wet. Her mind was racing from her dreams and the pounding flood of questions and memories trying to surface through the shadows swirling wildly inside her mind. Her stumbling steps ceased with her hands coming to rest on the metal railing her grip tightening with body shaking from both the cold and overwhelming emotion flowing through her.362Please respect copyright.PENANAK7nwnEasEq
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What was going on with her? Why did her head feel this way and what was all that she saw? Tears began to form and fall from her closed eyes with head hanging down as in the shadows through them came the memory of flames and a home of white burning. “Why…what…is…” her question to herself trailed off interrupted by the low growling of a beast. Lana opened her eyes rising and turned with a sharp inhale seeing a black fox with flames of black and purple around its ankles, neck, and tip of its ears with a body about as tall as a small horse.362Please respect copyright.PENANAVn93Hrc4WI
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It crouched down to the ground growling before lunging at her releasing a noise from its throat. Her reaction was one she did without thinking, no thought of using her dark or light powers, just throwing her arms up in front of her to try and block it bracing for impact with her back pressed firmly against the damp metal, getting the back of her orange nightgown wet.362Please respect copyright.PENANARw7FOaniXz
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The beast cried out a painful cry bringing her to lower her arms slowly and eyes to open tears falling still as she saw the beast vanishing up into flames to the air and once gone turned her eyes to the doorway watching a man step near her in a nice pair of black silk pajama pants, slippers on his feet and his chest covered by a partly closed nightshirt. “This is why I thought I explained when you were banished and I helped you that we stay inside at night. Beasts of the night are not ones to be tempted my lush flower of Nuray.”362Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9zmQWInrv
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His smooth voice was quiet soothing to her ears but though her heart and body relaxed watching him near something inside her somewhere was telling her to run. Gently placing a hand softly to crease her cheek gently making eye contact his gentle smile remained though he was not happy to see some light returning to her dark emerald green eyes. Light tones returning meant her light powers gained from her mother were starting to disintegrate his shadows and that was not going to be allowed. “My sweet little flower, able to bloom so beautiful in this land of darkness and death…you know I’m the only one who truly loves you and as this fact stands you should not put yourself into harm’s way.” He cooed gently his face getting closer.362Please respect copyright.PENANANm9fVuepyu
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His fingers gently traced her jawbone down softly wrapping his fingers around her chin for a moment before tracing down the front of her throat. It was amusing the way her body trembled under his touch. Half breeds were quite enjoyable and he had no plans to kill this one, not yet anyway. Perhaps in the future he would if he found someone of more use but till then he was fine with this one, the blood of her father’s traitor blood to Nuray and her mother’s traitor blood to Indu. A beautiful mix of sin and love and that dark power is what he wanted to keep hold of and not let go. It helped him not kill her by her looks, glad she took more after her mother.362Please respect copyright.PENANAiVjBMb5ANh
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“You must be cold…here, let me hold you close.” His words were soft spoken to draw her mind back in, nearing his face closer and to the side gently brushing his lips along her cheek while his arms encircled her holding her close to his warm body. When she jerked pulling to get away but his muscles tensed keeping her smaller form against his. “Now, now why do you try and move away? I thought you loved me…more than you did your parents…remember? You were so upset. All they did was look down on you, trying to hide what you were, terrified of what you could do. That dark power inherited by your father’s bloodline flowing in your veins, a power feared by those residing in Indu.362Please respect copyright.PENANA3C8ljqLyWx
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“Why in the world would you want to return to them?” his voice began to soften further almost impossible to hear to draw her in further to him as slowly shadows exited from his hands slowly starting to wrap around her and him trailing up going for her chest.362Please respect copyright.PENANAR1akWeDBDG