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She nodded and sat beside me, her hand lightly resting on my back as I closed my eyes and focused on breathing. Her gentle touch anchored me as snippets of memories began to whisk through my mind. Darkness surrounding me and overwhelming me until I couldn’t breathe anymore, while harsh laughter filled my ears. Towering over the town of Haversham with inky shadows leaping from my fingers to cover the buildings there. Watching as people screamed and fled from me in terror. Wrapping my large, shadowy hand around Rose and seeing the fear in her eyes, before she whispered that she loved me. Sun and Moon, it was all true. I was the one terrorizing Ilidan, not the Shadow Lord. I was destroying its towns and threatening my own people. I’d nearly killed the woman I would do anything to protect. An
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