Natalie~
Backstage at the Sorbonne's grand auditorium, I adjusted the cap and gown that felt heavier than fabric had any right to be. Not heavy in weight, but in meaning—a badge I'd fought for, bled for, and somehow earned through sheer grit. Two years had blown past like a storm, reshaping my life in ways I'd never seen coming.
I had pressed pause on school when fate pulled me onto a stage I never asked for: first as the Celestial Princess, then Queen of the Lycans, and eventually a goddess in my own right. Somewhere in the chaos, I brought a new life into the world—our daughter, Katrina. We named her after my Earth mother, my parents absence still stung like an open wound. Her loss left a hollow in me, but Katrina filled it with light so bright it kept me breathing.
