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The Empress Luna
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There was an ominous silence as billowing cloud, aloft in black and white, emerged.
As Luna threw a coughing fit, she waved her hand in front of her face, driving the smoke away because she couldn't see.
Luna had a stroke of rotten luck.
The thick ice of the frozen lake cracked and dissolved into water in an instant, and she fell right into it.
She opened her mouth in a silent scream.
Gasping in shock due to the cold water, Luna panicked, and she couldn't think straight.
It wasn't easy to make a rational decision on how to extricate herself from the water when she couldn't swim.
Everything felt like it was in slow motion as the thick red velvet coat along with the layers of her purple gown weighed her down because of how heavy it was, dragging her to the bottom of the deep lake.
