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9: • “Held by Fire, Not Hands”

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When the meeting finally adjourned, chairs scraped back slowly. Some left without a glance in her direction. A few eyed her warily, like a variable they couldn’t quite solve.

And then they were alone.

The doors clicked shut behind the last advisor, and silence swallowed the room.

Liara didn’t look at him.

Not at first.

She stood slowly, palms pressed to the polished table. The same spot where twelve heads had once turned to silence her. Not one of them had succeeded.

“I woke up and you were gone,” she said, her voice calm but not cold. “No note. No word. Just an empty bed.”

Asher said nothing.

She finally turned, eyes meeting his. There it was again—that flicker of sadness buried beneath the fire. But now it wasn’t alone. Now it danced with anger.

“Was that deliberate?” she asked. “Was I meant to feel forgotten?”

His gaze didn’t flinch. “You were meant to be tested.”

“And what did I prove, Asher?” Her voice was softer now, but laced with something bitter. “That I can still walk into a
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