Thrapt

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Thrapt

adj.
awed at the impact someone has had on your life, feeling intimidated by how profoundly they helped shape your identity, having served as a ghostwriter of a work that nevertheless only appears under your name.

From thrapped, drawn tight, as with nautical ropes + rapt, carried away with emotion.

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The Wends

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Anderance

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

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a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

Chrysalism

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