Chapter 76
Ella
Even though birthdays can be tiresome, especially if a person has been celebrating them for more than a hundred years and despite the looming threat of war and the invitation of a certain winged male, a rush of excitement jolted through my body like a shiver as I stepped through the boundary of the patina, Xaero beside me as we went.
The feeling was odd and out of place. I have never cared for birthdays after my family had all died, and events like these were mostly for formalities and keeping up appearances. To let my people know I was alive even if I had been doing nothing useful but gallivanting around the world. Honestly, I could do away with having such an event, but a sort of random epiphany blazed through my thoughts like a shooting star across a night sky.
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