Nikolai stole her from a sunlit world, cloaking his guilt in a name she didn’t choose—Kukolka which means little doll—and a realm of eternal dusk. She wears gowns spun from moth wings and silence is sharp enough to bleed. He calls this salvation, but flinches when she hums fragments of a forgotten lullaby, her rebellions quieter than his shadows’ hunger. His power, feral and starved, devours remorse first; her defiance, next. To survive, one must burn—but what kindles are brighter: the lie binding them, or the truth she hoards like a thimble’s edge?
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