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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: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Chico
California
Feelings
Flooded
Right
Flicker
Made
Lit
Somehow
Wings
Sight
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