A forbidden bloodline thought to be extinct has just been violently awakened.
The shocking twist in REBORN BOUND TO THE PEERLESS WHITE FOX reveals who truly poisoned her in the past life. When a secret glowing scroll is found under the temple floorboards, it projects a spectral image of her own sister mixing the fatal venom, tearing the family apart.
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The shocking twist in REBORN BOUND TO THE PEERLESS WHITE FOX reveals who truly poisoned her in the past life. When a secret glowing scroll is found under the temple floorboards, it projects a spectral image of her own sister mixing the fatal venom, tearing the family apart.
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00:00I took my sister's white fox during the bonding rite.
00:03Your power is exceptional.
00:05This fox barely registers on the scale.
00:08Give it to your sister.
00:10In my past life, I chose the powerful white tiger.
00:14When the demon lord came, he left me to die.
00:17I was badly wounded.
00:19I begged him for the last healing elixir.
00:22He gave it to my sister instead.
00:24So this time around, I choose to let them be together.
00:27I was reborn right before the bonding ceremony.
00:31I am the most powerful one in our clan and have the right to choose first.
00:35The creatures gathered from across the land were all exceptional.
00:39But the white tiger stood above the rest.
00:42He wore a collar, never bowing to me, even in chains.
00:47Then my sister Luna came bouncing in, cradling a limp white fox.
00:52Luna had barely started her training.
00:54She could have skipped this ceremony entirely.
00:56Luna hugged the white fox and cried.
01:00Because he was dissatisfied with the fox he'd been assigned.
01:04The white tiger's heart ached for her deeply.
01:07Saying he only wanted to form a pact with Luna, the elder cleared his throat.
01:11Luna, you've barely trained.
01:14Even if the tiger chose you, you wouldn't be able to handle him.
01:18That was when I stood up and said,
01:20Elder, I appreciate your consideration.
01:24I find I'm fonder of this white fox.
01:27The white tiger clearly favors Luna too.
01:29How about we swap instead?
01:31They pulled me aside.
01:33Clara, this tiger is far more powerful than the fox.
01:37My name is Clara Ashvale, one of the four great families of the Eastern Reaches.
01:42I was ten years old when the demon horde first came.
01:45My parents died holding the line.
01:48I watched it happen.
01:49If the clan elders hadn't arrived when they did, Luna and I would have died with them.
01:54After that, the elders raised us, taught us cultivation.
01:57For I possess stronger spiritual power, and them more beloved within the clan.
02:03But the tiger ignored me.
02:04I'd never been rejected before.
02:06Not once in my life.
02:08I threw everything I had at him.
02:10So I took mission.
02:11Hunted rogue demons.
02:13Came back injured almost every time.
02:16The tiger noticed nothing.
02:18He only appeared when I brought out elixirs.
02:21Took what he wanted, and walked away.
02:23I spent 20 years on him.
02:25And eventually, he took human form.
02:28Tall and striking.
02:29Yet he still refuses to speak much to me.
02:32Only coming when he needs something.
02:34I told myself it was normal.
02:36Strong creatures had pride.
02:37He'd come around eventually.
02:39Then one evening, I came home exhausted.
02:42And saw him watching my sister's profile with something like reverence.
02:46I was still reeling when an elder walked past and caught sight of them in the distance.
02:51Clara, when you go out on contracts, stop sending your sister to look after the tiger.
02:57He's clearly more attached to her now.
02:59You need to be careful.
03:02I never ask Luna to look after the tiger.
03:05She comes every time you leave.
03:07Says you asked her to.
03:08Doesn't she have her own bonded creature?
03:10That fox?
03:11It passed away in its second year.
03:13You didn't know?
03:14I hadn't known.
03:15I'd spent 20 years building someone else's happiness.
03:18I began targeting Luna.
03:20I hated her.
03:21That enraged the white tiger.
03:23He colluded with the demon.
03:25Opened our clan's protective wards from the inside.
03:28Left me to face the invasion alone.
03:31When I was badly wounded and begged him for the only healing elixir we had left.
03:36He gave it to Luna.
03:37Who had a scratch.
03:39This time, I want to see how long it will take him to take human form without me.
03:44The elder was unwilling to grant the mighty white tiger to an inexperienced young woman.
03:49Yet the tiger would only bow before Luna.
03:52He sighed and ordered the ceremony begin.
03:56The ceremony startled the white fox.
03:58The white fox in my arms fainted the moment the ceremony ended.
04:02Luna completed her bond with the tiger.
04:04You and that little fox really do suit each other, Clara.
04:08Luna, if your sister hadn't yielded to you, how could you have gotten this white tiger?
04:13You should be on your knees thanking her.
04:15Oh, she's crying again.
04:17Always with the tears.
04:18Like she's the one who suffered.
04:20The white tiger wanted to stand up for Luna.
04:22Yet he possessed no power right after bonding with her.
04:25The elders had built my residence himself, ringed with good cultivation energy.
04:31Luna had once tried to move in.
04:33He'd turned her away, citing my training as the reason.
04:36As soon as we entered the room, I began to observe the white fox.
04:41He looked different from any I had seen before, with a wisp of red fur on his head and an
04:46unusually
04:47large tail.
04:48My courtyard had a natural spring, warm with cultivation energy.
04:53I set him in it and watched him wake up instantly, floating on his back, drinking in the warmth.
04:59I laughed.
05:01Aren't you afraid I'll hurt you?
05:03The fox stared at me, then gave his small head a solemn shake.
05:07All right.
05:08Rest here and recover.
05:11You're not going anywhere.
05:13I can handle you.
05:14The next morning, something woke me wrong.
05:18I opened my eyes and saw a handsome face.
05:21Pale skin, dark lashes.
05:24He was also asleep, arms around me.
05:26He had gotten in without waking me, which meant his power was well above mine.
05:31Who are you?
05:32How did you get in here?
05:33I scrambled to the edge of the bed.
05:35He sat up slowly, noticed the clothes he was wearing, and looked faintly amused.
05:40Before I could react, he pulled me into his arms.
05:44He said,
05:45I have a name.
05:46His eyes drifting down to meet mine.
05:49It's Ash.
05:50Like he was about to kiss me any second.
05:53It turned out Ash met the Elder when he was severely injured and was taken back by him.
05:59I stared at him.
06:00Please tell me whoever hurt you isn't coming here looking for revenge.
06:03We're bonded now, Master.
06:05I suggest you train hard and do your best to keep up.
06:08Ash laughed.
06:09He was genuinely useful, as it turned out.
06:13I had a fire affinity.
06:14He complimented it perfectly.
06:17He produced a cultivation manual from somewhere.
06:20Fire techniques.
06:21And good ones.
06:22Two days of work and I could already feel the difference.
06:26Every time Ash practiced cultivation with me, he took off his top.
06:30His fair skin always made me lose focus.
06:34One afternoon, Luna called my name from outside the gate.
06:37I dragged my attention away from Ash and went out.
06:41Luna stepped into the courtyard without waiting and stopped dead when she saw him.
06:46She stared him.
06:47Ash stood, dressed properly in seconds, and settled a robe around my shoulders without being asked.
06:54Who is this?
06:55Luna's gaze didn't move.
06:56You don't recognize him?
06:57The fox.
06:59From the bonding ceremony.
07:00You said yourself we were suited for each other.
07:03I think you were right.
07:04I smiled pleasantly.
07:06What do you want?
07:07We're in the middle of training.
07:11I was hoping we could raise the tiger together.
07:14I can't afford to keep up with his needs on my own.
07:16If we shared the work, what exactly makes this my problem?
07:20You're the one who gave him to me.
07:21You could have kept him.
07:22You chose not to.
07:23That means you owe me.
07:25I owe you nothing.
07:27Yeah.
07:27Half a year and every LXMR I had is gone.
07:30There's nothing left for my own training.
07:32I'm at the bottom ranks.
07:38No, you can't.
07:40Little sister, don't mistake me for a fool.
07:43I'm not funding your creature for you.
07:45If you can't afford him, bring it to the elder.
07:48Let someone else take the tiger.
07:50I'm sure he'd prefer a partner who could actually keep pace.
07:53She'd never do that.
07:54Where were we?
07:56Weeks passed.
07:57I broke through to a new cultivation stage.
08:00The great elder dispatched me on an assignment alongside elder Margaret to handle a demon
08:06outbreak in the lowlands.
08:08I handled them all before Margaret to intervene.
08:11On the way back, she suddenly laughed.
08:14Clara, you should hurry home.
08:16Your little fox is waiting for you.
08:19She vanished.
08:21I hadn't finished processing what she'd said before Ash appeared in front of me.
08:26I reached out and touched his cheek.
08:28What's wrong?
08:32Clara Ashvale, why are you trying to get rid of me?
08:36Is it something I did?
08:37Or have you found someone new?
08:40What are you talking about?
08:42Your sister came by yesterday.
08:44Said you sent her to look after me.
08:46He started to show teeth.
08:49I flicked his forehead.
08:50He recoiled, then immediately looked betrayed.
08:54You betray me first and then hit me?
08:56Honestly, I'm going to say this once.
08:58I am not reconsidering anything.
09:01And I have no idea why Luna told you that.
09:03What I do know is that I never asked her to come near you.
09:08Understood?
09:13We ran into a group of younger clan members on the way.
09:16I asked why they'd turn back.
09:18Luna cleared everyone out.
09:22Let's go.
09:25You're going to lecture me about picking fights and then drag me directly into one?
09:29We found them mid-argument.
09:31Or rather, Luna was arguing.
09:33The tiger couldn't speak.
09:35He'd never broken through to human form.
09:37So he was expressing himself through sheer body language.
09:41And none of it was agreeable.
09:43What is wrong with you?
09:45I didn't force you to come here.
09:47You said this place would help you advance.
09:49I've given you every elixir I have and you still can't even talk to me.
09:54You want me to go hunting rogue demons?
09:56I just started training.
09:58You'd be sending me to die.
09:59Clara's fox has been in human form for months and you can't even answer a question.
10:04What exactly are you doing with yourself?
10:07I heard the tiger's version of a response.
10:10A low rumble.
10:12In my past life, he'd never once spoken to me with anything resembling patience.
10:18Watching him endure Luna's outburst without walking away was a strange thing.
10:25Luna, there you are.
10:28Lyra, what brings you out here?
10:30I patted Ash's arm.
10:32He gave a small, resigned sigh and crouched.
10:34He held me in his arms.
10:36Luna's gaze locked onto him and didn't move.
10:39Nothing specific.
10:41I just wanted to know why you visited my companion without my permission.
10:45Luna hadn't expected me to know so quickly.
10:47She started backpedaling.
10:49No, you misunderstood.
10:49I was looking for you.
10:53She told me I was supposed to be hers.
10:56That you'd stolen me away.
10:58She was very convincing.
11:00And what did you do?
11:01I removed her from the property.
11:04She's not strong enough to argue back, so she left fairly quickly.
11:07I stood and faced Luna directly.
11:09If I remember correctly, you didn't want the fox.
11:11He was badly hurt.
11:13If you'd taken him, he wouldn't have survived.
11:15That's not true.
11:16I would have cared for him.
11:17The tiger's crest stood fully upright.
11:20You're doing this deliberately.
11:22You're trying to cause trouble between me and the tiger.
11:26If you try this again, there will be consequences.
11:30On the way back, my mood was good.
11:33Ash was quiet, though.
11:34He wouldn't shift and carry me, even when I asked.
11:37When we reached home, he caught my arm.
11:39You and the tiger.
11:41There's something there.
11:42I didn't hide it.
11:44We have a history.
11:45It ended badly.
11:48Do you want to know?
11:50He turned, shifted into fox form, and wrapped his enormous tail around me.
11:55No, I'm better than that by every measure.
11:58And you promised me you wouldn't seek out another bonded creature.
12:02I ran my fingers through the fur at the back of his ears.
12:05I won't.
12:07I promise.
12:08Some time later, Ash decided I wasn't advancing fast enough.
12:13Get up.
12:14I refuse to share energy with someone who progresses this slowly.
12:18The Great Elder said I'm the most talented concultator of my generation.
12:22Unlike my past life, all the elixirs I earned this time went into me.
12:27Five years.
12:28I moved from the early stages into the middle tier of my cultivation rank.
12:32When I returned to the clan, the Great Elder was close to a breakthrough of his own.
12:37The younger members had grown considerably.
12:39Only one thing hadn't changed.
12:42The tiger still hadn't taken human form.
12:46We expected the tiger to elevate the entire clan.
12:49Ten years in, and he's no closer to breaking through.
12:52We sent an elder to assess him quietly.
12:55The gap is too large.
12:57Even with assistance, he can't make the crossing.
13:00Luna had barely enough power to sustain herself,
13:03let alone a creature of the tiger's requirements.
13:06But honestly, his not breaking through was the best outcome.
13:11I wasn't strong enough to kill him, so control was the only option.
13:16I threw myself into building up the clan.
13:18I trained with the younger members daily.
13:21If something went wrong, I wanted them to be able to protect themselves.
13:25Ash gave me space for it.
13:27He knew what I was doing.
13:28One evening, I came home exhausted, and he was waiting for me.
13:33He picked me up, threw me over his shoulder, and started walking.
13:38You look terrible.
13:39I'm taking you to see something entertaining.
13:42His idea of entertainment was crouching at the edge of the back valley,
13:46and listening to Luna and the tiger fight.
13:49The tiger couldn't speak, so the entire argument was one-sided.
13:54Don't look at me like that.
13:55I didn't force you to bond with me.
13:57You came to me.
13:59You told me to wait.
14:00You told me once you took human form, we'd leave together.
14:04You're the one who picked the fight with Clara at the ceremony.
14:10And now what?
14:12You're stuck, I'm stuck.
14:14And it's all your fault, you useless.
14:17So they'd known each other before.
14:19The tiger had come to Luna deliberately.
14:21He'd made her promises.
14:23But that still didn't explain why they'd opened the wards.
14:26Why involved the demon horde at all?
14:29Unless they'd already been working with the demons.
14:32The one that killed my parents.
14:35My parents, who were also Luna's parents.
14:38How could she?
14:39I needed to find out.
14:41And when I did, there would be a reckoning.
14:44Back at the residence, I was working through what I needed to investigate
14:48when a visitor appeared at the gate.
14:50The tiger.
14:51He was staring at Ash, who was soaking in the spring and determinedly ignoring him.
14:57What do you want?
14:58Shouldn't you be with Luna?
14:59Ash emerged from the water and immediately positioned himself between us.
15:04Master, you promised.
15:07No, no other bonded creatures.
15:09Don't even talk to him.
15:10I just want to know why he's here.
15:12That's all.
15:13He's regretting his choices, obviously.
15:16He chose a dead end, and he knows it.
15:19I started to look at the tiger.
15:22The gate was empty.
15:23This life, I'd kept my distance.
15:26I hadn't interfered with him.
15:28If the tiger genuinely wanted a different bond, the elders would have been glad to help.
15:33There was no reason to come to me specifically.
15:36Unless the tiger had also been reborn.
15:39I didn't say anything to Ash.
15:41I went straight to the clan's protective wards.
15:44In tact.
15:46I breathed.
15:47Then I looked at the ground near the barrier edge.
15:50White tiger fur.
15:51A handful of strands.
15:53He'd been here.
15:55He hadn't broken through.
15:56His power wasn't there yet.
15:58But he knew what was sealed here.
16:01He knew my parents had died here.
16:03I'd told him that myself.
16:05In my last life.
16:06I had to watch him.
16:08Carefully.
16:09All the time.
16:11The gossip started circulating through the clan not long after.
16:14Luna and the tiger were fighting constantly.
16:17He refused her commands.
16:19Ignored her in training sessions.
16:23Made her look incompetent in front of the whole yard.
16:27And every time I appeared.
16:30He drifted toward me.
16:31Elder Margaret found the entire situation delightful.
16:34Her owl sat on her shoulder.
16:36You know what this reminds me of?
16:37Every story where someone realizes too late what they had.
16:41Freezes the other person out.
16:42Spends the rest of it chasing after her.
16:44She said it directly in front of Ash.
16:46He moved.
16:47I caught him before he could do anything irreversible.
16:49Margaret clutched her owl and said.
16:51Oh my.
16:51I could have a conversation with Luna.
16:53Offer her a different creature.
16:54Something she can actually sustain.
16:55Transfer the tiger formally.
16:57Quietly.
16:57Please.
16:58No more.
16:59No.
17:00I'm not touching the clan council over this.
17:01Besides.
17:02I have Ash.
17:02That's enough.
17:03Margaret looked genuinely mournful.
17:05A bonded creature in open conflict with its partner is a problem for all of us.
17:08And Luna hasn't advanced in ten years.
17:10The elders have been discussing a field assignment.
17:13Practical training away from the clan for a year or two.
17:15I understood what she wasn't saying.
17:17They'd given up on the tiger as a resource.
17:20Ash's presence had changed the calculations.
17:22What we accomplished together had raised the bar considerably.
17:26If Luna left with the tiger, I had time.
17:29Time to reinforce the wars.
17:35In the clan hall, Luna cried.
17:38She accused me.
17:39You killed him.
17:39Then, in front of every elder, she made her counteroffer.
17:43If Clara wants the tiger so badly, she can have him.
17:44I won't fight her.
17:46But if she takes him, she gives me Ash.
17:48A mixed Lindage fox for a pure blood tiger.
17:51Honestly, Clara comes out ahead.
17:52The great elder shut it down before anyone else could speak.
17:56Who?
17:56Luna.
17:57Focus on your own creature and stop coming up with ideas like that.
18:00I heard this from Ash, who had apparently been listening from outside the hall.
18:04While the elders dealt with Luna, I was in the creature registry with the keeper, looking
18:08into a disappearance.
18:09Three creatures had vanished overnight.
18:12Two small rabbits, a young deer.
18:14The keeper was beside himself.
18:15I checked the seals myself before I left.
18:18Any disturbance at all, and I'd have felt it.
18:21There was nothing.
18:21Not a demon.
18:22No trace of that kind of energy.
18:24I looked around.
18:25The registry was carved into the cliffside, warded stone on all sides.
18:29The only way in or out used the clan seal.
18:32To remove three creatures cleanly, whoever did it knew this place intimately, or had always
18:38been inside.
18:40Brother Fox is perfectly safe.
18:42Can creatures turn on each other?
18:43They have consciousness.
18:43They would never do something so barbaric.
18:45Don't listen to her.
18:46She was just being strange.
18:48They do terrible things when they want to advance.
18:51Creatures aren't different.
18:53There's a method, old and dark, not talked about, where one creature absorbs the power
18:59of another.
19:00Want to know how it works?
19:02The fastest shortcut was this.
19:04Take the core of another creature.
19:06Consume it.
19:07The higher the cultivation of the creature you took from, the greater the gain.
19:10Ash had nearly been killed by exactly this method.
19:13Years ago, before we met.
19:15Once it works, it will come back for more.
19:20We staked out the registry that night.
19:22Nothing.
19:23Quiet all the way to dawn.
19:24I reassured the keeper.
19:26Don't worry.
19:29And headed out.
19:30And immediately ran into a young clan member sprinting toward me.
19:33Guardian!
19:34Something happened at the residences!
19:35What's wrong?
19:37Ash!
19:39Ash shifted form and moved.
19:42When we landed, I knew from the sound.
19:45One of the younger students, a girl who'd bonded at her first ceremony, was sitting on the ground
19:50in her courtyard, holding what remained of her rabbit.
19:54Elder Margaret was already there.
19:56She caught my eye and gave a small, grim nod.
20:00Your guess was right.
20:01The core was taken.
20:02Clean, precise, one strike.
20:04She didn't feel it happen.
20:06The bond broke and that's when she knew.
20:10Without thinking, I turned and looked for the tiger.
20:13He was standing near the edge of the crowd, perfectly still.
20:17Don't stare.
20:18It's him.
20:19You're sure?
20:20I've seen this method used before.
20:21His signature reads the same.
20:23I went to the great elder and told him everything.
20:25Don't move yet.
20:26You need proof.
20:27Catch him in the act.
20:28Behind him, his courtyard had descended into complete chaos, all of them trying to interrogate
20:34Ash about his parents' bloodlines.
20:36I keep them close.
20:38Your firehound just destroyed the garden path.
20:41You could clean it up for your elder.
20:44No.
20:45Still, with subtle pressure, I got the senior elders watching the tiger more carefully.
20:51Weeks passed.
20:52No more disappearances.
20:54But two weeks later, the girl who had lost her rabbit still hadn't recovered.
20:59She stopped coming to training, ate less, barely spoke.
21:04The other students let it drift into rumor and then into story.
21:08Ashes sat with me every day.
21:10Then, one night, something moved past my window.
21:14Floating on the water's surface was a single white tiger feather.
21:18I reached through the bond and found him.
21:20I arrived at the ward boundary and walked straight into a shockwave.
21:25Ash and the tiger were already fighting.
21:28No preamble.
21:29Fully committed.
21:30He moved through the trees in pale clothing, fast and fluid, redirecting Ash's attacks with the ease of someone who'd
21:37been preparing for exactly this fight.
21:39Near the ward boundary, Luna sat perfectly still.
21:43When I got close enough to see her clearly, my stomach dropped.
21:47Luna was dead.
21:48I hadn't even processed it before the sky began to darken.
21:52The ward closed.
21:53Harm your bonded partner and the consequence falls from the sky.
21:58You ran this exact plan in another life.
22:01You used everyone here as scaffolding and then kicked it out.
22:04And now this life you had the chance to choose differently and instead you took her core.
22:07The sky is watching.
22:10It ends today.
22:12Almost.
22:13One more step.
22:15He was breaking the ward seal behind his back.
22:18The creatures sealed in the valley felt the loosening.
22:21Thunder gathered directly above him.
22:23The great elder arrived in a flash of light from the peak.
22:27Clara!
22:27Hold the creatures back.
22:29I'll reseal from outside.
22:30Clara!
22:31You can't stop this.
22:33Come die with me!
22:34I'll do better by you this time.
22:37In my past life, I had died in this exact valley.
22:41Alone.
22:42Then a hand closed on my shoulder.
22:44It is Ash.
22:45You want to take her down with you?
22:48You'd have to go through me first.
22:50You're nobody.
22:52This time, I wasn't alone.
22:54In my past life, I'd never had a real partner.
22:56Just me and whatever I could manage alone.
22:59Now I understood the difference.
23:00Ash pushed forward and I covered him.
23:02He never checked over his shoulder.
23:04I never asked him to slow down.
23:05A hundred exchanges and the tiger's composure was cracking.
23:09He couldn't find a way past Ash.
23:11He couldn't land a hit on me.
23:12He broke.
23:13This isn't right.
23:14You're supposed to die.
23:16We're supposed to go back together.
23:19Goodbye.
23:19I raised one hand and I pointed at the sky.
23:22The lightning came down like a cock dropped from the sky itself.
23:28He would not be coming back.
23:30The tiger was gone.
23:31He would not be coming back.
23:35The tiger was dealt with.
23:37The harder problem remained.
23:39The creatures sealed in the valley were old and powerful.
23:43They couldn't be killed cleanly.
23:45Only re-contained.
23:47And the oldest among them, the one they called the Abyss Serpent, had been dormant for a century.
23:54Sealed originally by the previous great elder, who had given his life to do it.
23:59Ash had been leaning against a tree, expression of someone waiting for his reward.
24:04When he went still, he stared into the dark between the trees.
24:09What's in there?
24:12The Abyss Serpent.
24:14Wait here.
24:15I need to go in.
24:17Something shifted in his expression.
24:19Something I hadn't seen from him before.
24:21He started moving.
24:23I caught his hand.
24:24It's not safe.
24:26I know.
24:27Clara.
24:28He tried carefully to explain the situation to me.
24:32In my past life, I died in this valley.
24:35I watched the tiger take Luna and leave.
24:37I was alone when it happened.
24:39I'm not leaving you behind.
24:41We went in together.
24:43Behind us...
24:44Who just walked into the sealed valley?
24:46Elder, that's your student.
24:48My student is extraordinary.
24:51The valley was wrong the moment we crossed the boundary.
24:53Eyes in the dark.
24:55Dozens of them.
24:56They didn't move.
24:57Some instinct in them recognized Ash.
25:00He'd shifted to his true form.
25:02Large enough now that I rode at the back of his neck.
25:04I asked him before.
25:06What are you looking for?
25:07The Abyss Serpent.
25:09Tell me why.
25:10My mother is in there.
25:11I had always assumed Ash was the product of some unusual crossing of bloodlines.
25:16He'd never corrected me.
25:17Now I found out.
25:19He did have fox blood.
25:20But his mother was the Abyss Serpent.
25:23One of the creatures from the oldest records.
25:26Vast in form.
25:27Ancient in power.
25:28Her cultivation predating the current era by centuries.
25:32She hadn't always been this.
25:34Two hundred years ago, someone had used the dark method on the creature she'd loved.
25:38Consumed his core.
25:40She hadn't recovered.
25:41I reached up and put my hand against the side of Ash's head.
25:44I had nothing to say.
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