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The elven king held the human girl in his arms; she'd woken up screaming bloody murder, like she'd had her soul ripped out of her body in a rain of shattered glass.

The king had held her in his strong arms, rocking her back and forth, assuring everything would be alright. He had begun to sing in elvish, to soothe her.

Now, she lay asleep in his arms. He had forgotten how fragile humans were.

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