Epilogue:The Garden Of Stars
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It was a quiet night — long after the festival lights had dimmed and the laughter of the people faded into sleep.
In the hidden garden behind the palace, where only moonflowers grew, Kael sat beneath a silver tree, a journal open on his lap.
He was writing.
Not as a king. Not as a warrior.
But as a man in love.
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> "*To the girl who saved me — not once, but again and again.
You were always the thread that pulled me back from forgetting. The voice I heard in silence. The warmth that lived in the spaces between memory.
They say curses are cruel. But mine led me to you. And if fate gave me the choice again, I would still choose the pain… if it meant I could find you once more.*
Forever, your Kael."
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Liora found him there, barefoot and drowsy-eyed, her robe trailing behind her.
“You’re writing letters to me again?” she teased softly, kneeling beside him.
“I never stopped.”
He handed her the journal, and she smiled at the familiar script.
A breeze rustled the petals above, releasing a soft glow. One bloom detached, floating down into Liora’s open palm.
She held it between them. “Did you know moonflowers only bloom when they sense love nearby?”
Kael leaned closer. “Then I guess they’ll never stop blooming here.”
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Far beyond Elyria’s borders, stories would be told of a cursed prince and the girl who never gave up on him. Some would call it myth. Others would swear it true.
But in the garden of stars, beneath a sky painted in silver and dreams, love — the real kind — lived on.
And it remembered everything.
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