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... d trembling but refusing to look away. Her eyes were swollen, lashes wet, but she held his gaze with a strange kind of certainty. Not naive, not childish—just real.
This was the moment he understood she hadn’t said those words on impulse.
She meant them.
Leon let out a slow breath and finally broke the silence.
"Lyra," he said gently, "following me isn’t some small thing."
"I know."
"You don’t know what I’ll face in Starhallow."
"I don’t ca ...
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