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Chapter 7: First Attack

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The scream never came.

That was the strangest part, Aurora would think later, turning the memory over again and again in the hours that followed. She never got the chance to scream at all, and some part of her would spend a long time wondering whether a scream might have changed anything at all that night.

She woke to a hand clamped over her mouth and a blade already pressed flat against her throat, cold enough to sting, close enough that she felt every tremor in the arm holding it there. Mo
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