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>>6107603“There is something I wanted to show you,” you say, your breath feeling a bit heavier than usual. You have to share this with them. They deserve it, even if a part of your wonders whether they’ll hate you for being… special. Standing out. With your hair and now Carnaval’s gift.
You push those thoughts away. No. These are your friends, your very first <span class="mu-i">actual</span> friends.
They deserve this.
You reach for the hem of your shirt and start pulling it up.
“I thought this would have taken at least some flowers,” Salicera comments, immediately smacked on her thigh by Rubida.
The glinting of candlelight on crystal shuts every other comment. You take Carnaval’s gift out and display it for all to see. Three pair of shocked eyes mirror themselves on the shiny surface, glistening crimson with her searing blood.
“That is… one of Carnaval’s…” Rubida mutters, her fingers twitching as if they’d want to touch the feather, but dared not to.
“A feather from her glass wings,” Soralisa hisses in awe. “Oh, legends have it that her blood is the only substance that can harm the Adversary…”
“How did you get this?” Salicera wonders, her slender hand already touching the crystal.
[cont.]