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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Author: Emmanuel
last update publish date: 2026-01-25 08:15:39
BECCA'S POV

The Librarian snapped her fingers.

The world didn't fade or blur or dissolve. It simply stopped existing. One moment I was standing in the warm, golden glow of the Library of Lost Things, surrounded by my friends. The next, they were gone—vanished like they'd never been there at all.

"Wait—" I spun around, searching frantically. "Where are my friends? What did you do with them?"

The Librarian stood with her back to me, those mismatched eyes—one gold, one silver—studying something I c
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