HAPPY GANESH CHATURTHI!
As it's one of my favourite festivals, I updated a day early and this chapter is dedicated to @bindu2112 :D
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WALNUT:
Best eaten early in the morning, walnut is one of the healthiest snack options as it is very rich in protein and contains high amounts of fiber. As it's a nut with the highest amount of antioxidants, they are effective in preventing heart disease.
The walnut shell looks like a human brain and that's just weird but studies have shown that walnut is good for brain function as it aids in better memory, learning skills and also help fight stress and reduce anxiety.
Walnut also contains Biotin i.e Vitamin B7, which strengthens hair and reduces hair fall, helping in overall hair growth. Walnut is better just eaten plain or as a topping with a healthy oatmeal.
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"Hunter versus prey, and the look in his eyes told her, in no uncertain terms, eating her alive was a distinct possibility."
― Kelly Moran, Tracking You
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CHAPTER 16 – HER NAME
"With wings like bats and hawk-like talons, the harpies swooped in and carried away everything precious to mankind. They killed innocents and feasted on their blood until their lizard-like skin was drenched in them. The sufferings of the people grew terrible as the harpies also ruined their harvests. With no food to eat and no place to hide, the humans ran to the fairies for shelter and thus began the First Battle of the Wings.
The Harpy queen knew humans would seek the help of fairies who were also hunters and warriors. But the fairies had a weakness... their strengths depended on the existence of the Pure Soul in their clan and only one person in the clan could see them and they called her the rider. So, the Harpy queen asked for her sisters to kill rider first and then the Pure Soul.
When the Pure Soul of a clan was killed, the clan too fell apart. The harpies grew in strength while the fairies fell to their death. The First Battle of the wings ended with the victory to Harpies and a period of Great Grief for the fairies in which several clans were completely wiped out.
Pained by the death of her siblings, Queen Magdalena asked for God Supreme to interfere and on their instructions, an Angel descended to the earth. The fairy queen and the angel were to have a child, who would be the first of her kind. She would have powers that no one before ever possessed.
They named her Cyrena, for she was to be the queen who would then not only defeat the harpies but also, wipe out their kind from the surface of the earth.
Intelligent, kind and extremely powerful, Cyrena possessed the strength of her mother and the ruthlessness of her father. Her enemies trembled in fear when they heard her wings flapping like thunder. With a single-minded purpose, she would step into the battlefield and tear apart the wings of her enemies and pierce their cold, cruel heart with a—"
The clanking sound of a steel vessel dropping on to the floor was what woke Cyane up.
She had the dream again. The same dream that she had been having for years. A young boy was reading to her the story of Queen Cyrena, the first half-breed fairy of their family. She was the first Sylvan fairy to have an angel like wings and all her children and all their children possessed the same gifts that she did. Cyane and all the current members of the Lycoris royal family were a direct descendent of Queen Cyrena from her first daughter.
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The Heirs
Varulv"Do you have a death wish? You cannot seriously be thinking of going there? That place, those people... they are... not like us, not like other creatures of their kind either!" "He means to say that they are of a far more powerful than us. They are...
