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Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Chico
California
Somehow
Wings
Sight
Feeling
Sense
Feelings
Flooded
Right
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