While Kain wrestled with time-bending microbes in a collapsing relic, back in Dark Moon City, Alaina Ashenclaw, the owner of a certain illegitimate salamander, was wrestling with something far more complicated: her feelings.
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Alaina Ashenclaw looked beautiful.
She always did—long blond hair curled to perfection, green eyes sharp enough to slice through a conversation, posture immaculate, expression sculpted into aristocratic arrogance from years of growing up as one of the elite.
But today…
Today, the arrogance cracked.
A faint crease of heartbreak sat between her brows, ruining her usual aura of superiority.
She hated that people could probably see it.
She hated even more that it was real.
Months ago, after seeing Kain and Serena finally show what looked like genuine progress in their relationship, she'd been forced to accept her loss.
