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Fleki’s POV

An overwhelming surge of emotion that I couldn't wrap my head around enveloped me whenever my mind drifted to Lustre of late. I’d been running from emotions all my life, I’d avoided it like it was the origin of the fucking plague, I’d sworn myself off anything that’d make way for emotions such as this, I’d put every single damned wall high up just to avoid emotions like this.

So how? When? Where? Did all of these emotions that now threatened to ruin me manage to emerge from?

I had no clue what the answer to any of those questions were but they’d been weighing on me heavily for the longest time and I’d felt the need to address them once and for all. While It’d be a fucking huge lie to out rightly state that I hated them, there's one thing I was certain of when it came to them.

They scared me.

I’d gone against the most powerful werwolves in all of Silvercrest and beyond, I’d gone horn to horn with monsters of the wild that giants would cower at the sight of, I’d basked in t