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Chapter 9

Penulis: C.ELLICA
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By sundown, I had peeked at the trapdoor six more times, got apple-slapped by the tree for yelling too much, and received a formal complaint from the ant kingdom written in breadcrumbs.

And yet… beneath all the chaos, beneath all the sass and spiteful vegetables… that room still called to me.

The mark on my neck?

It pulsed every time I got near it.

Like it knew something.

Like it was waiting.

For me.

And maybe, just maybe…

The mirror wasn’t what I should fear.

Maybe what I should fear—

Was who I might become if I don’t open that door again.

I lasted exactly two days before I caved.

Two.

Dramatic.

Loud.

Veggie-sassed.

Days.

I tried ignoring the pulsing trapdoor. I really did. I picked tomatoes. I watered apple trees. I even helped a crying grapevine with emotional damage because apparently its ex was a raisin now.

But the cursed lightning mark on my neck?

Throbbed like a broken Bluetooth trying to connect to trauma.

Every time I passed that damn trapdoor, it whispered:

“Come back, Kyla
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