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Chapter Fourteen 3. Yuki
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Yuki was not surprised when she took to the air at the sound of the flock answering her calls. They might be daytime owls, but strangers incoming to Flock lands would keep most of them awake all night. Change was not something that came easy or often to her people. Thousands of years of tradition didn’t stop just because they’d immigrated to Australia
::You have returned Granddaughter::
Her grandmother’s voice was always a mess of contradictions. How could one person sound gentle and firm at the same time? Welcoming and disapproving in one breath. It always left her on the back foot when it came to their conversations. But, to be completely fair, the whole family suffered from the same trouble. Only Yuki’s mother had ever seemed unaffected by her verbal sparring. Yuki was forever grateful her mother was usually on her side.
It had been her influence that had ensured she remained in school with Sally. That her best friend
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Hunter dropped a kiss to the top of her head. She sat in a small room in one the houses. When Yuki had said her family had many doctors, she wasn't expecting a whole medical building. They had Celeste on a bed and a older man had checked her over already, the bandage had been removed as her wounds had healed. She still hadn't shifted or woken though and Sally tried to curb her worry."You're safe here," Hunter knelt before her chair, his hands on her knees his golden eyes watching her. “And I need you to stay with Celeste.”Sally shot him a smile, “you don’t have to babysit me, Mate.” She teased him gently, stroking his knuckles with her thumbs. “This is a lot, but you need to do your thing.”“You are the best sort of distraction,” he grinned up at her. “I’ll send Yuki back once we get things started.”She lent down to drag his lips to hers. She already missed kissing him and it had b
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