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Scarred: A Short Story
With thick, raven black hair always braided, she has a clear but slightly freckled skin, visible only when at a close proximity. She has a pointed and sharp, but slightly crooked nose, seemed to have been broken before. Sporting a plump and luscious lip with high cheekbones, she has a pair of stormy and piercing doe-like eyes. With her delicate yet statuesque form, she holds an enchanting and alluring aura. However, as ravishing her beauty was, her eyes hold a feral glint. With an appearance like no other, fills some with envy, but others with fear. Livid to many, yet affectionate to the tiger. Scarred mentally and living a solitary life in a country where it was not her birthplace, nor one she was familiar with ; India, she and the tiger had
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