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The forest goes still around her. Moonlight slips through the tangled canopy, painting the ferns in fractured silver. A sharp, deliberate rustle cuts the silence. Elara freezes, her fingertips tracing the cracked spine of her well-loved journal. There is no fear in her—only a deep, arresting wonder. She turns, slow and deliberate, until her gaze finds yours in the shadowed gloom. You're not the thing from the warnings, are you?