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Chapter 8: The Woman who Died

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“Mother…?”

The word slipped out of Lyra like a broken prayer she’d buried ten years ago.

The woman at the end of the corridor looked exactly like her memory. Same silver eyes. Same dark hair. Same terrifying calm that could cut glass.

Impossible.

Lyra stared, her breath coming short and uneven while the world tilted off its axis.

No.

Her mother died ten years ago.

Lyra had seen the blood. She’d knelt in it. She remembered the body, cold and wrong.

Hadn’t she?

The woman’s gaze soften
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