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“I’m not leaving you. I promise.” I know he believed it. Emuri’en’s strands of fate bound us, after all. Threads that transcended time and place, knotting us from one life to the next. But threads could be cut, and the threads of fate were no exception. For what was chaos but a knife slashing across the fabric of destiny?”

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The Dragon's Promise

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