I’m not lost, Erel.” The raspy feminine voice made my mouth slip off Asher’s and my hands claw at the glittery smoke that hadn’t yet cleared. “Mimi!” She spun away from a flying, white-clad sentinel, her eyes lambent with joy. “Celeste!” She opened her arms, and I fell into them, new tears tumbling over the ones that hadn’t yet dried. “Oh, Mimi,” I sobbed. “How I’ve missed you, my beautiful girl. How I’ve missed you.” Her arms crushed me to her, carefully avoiding my wings, and it struck me that she had arms, that she had a body, but then everything I’d learned about the celestial world over
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