Echoes of that Winter
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Last published Tue, Apr 8, 2025
As he stood there looking at the same brown eyes which played a starring role in most of his dreams for the past six years, all he could feel was numbness.
Numbness because he is surprised, befuddled and overwhelmed with the urge to pinch himself or beat someone's ass just to make sure it's real and not another one of his futile dreams.
He felt numb because he didn't know how to express it all at the same time. The most perceptible difference is that she is not the same girl he used to adore from a distance, not the same one who reminded him of winter and dew. Now, she is all grown up and reminds him of a thunderstorm who can shake his world into shattered pieces.
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A fate stricken saga of two souls unknown of each other's existence. Yet influencing each other's orbits into a beautiful loop of love and destiny.
Alarik and Raelynn, two opposite poles of the magnet...The Moon and the Earth... The fire and the air... The darkness and the stars. Irrevocable presence in each other's lives yet unknown to the entanglement of their fates.
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