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Auteur: Ciana Caelis
last update Date de publication: 2026-11-01 20:54:03

Riya's POV

The pendant lay open in Martha's palm, two halves of green stone hinged like the wings of a moth. Inside the tiny hollow sat two things: a brass key no longer than my thumbnail, and a square of folded paper.

"Well, I'll be," Martha whispered. "Forty years that stone's been in the family, and I never once saw it open."

She set it in my hand. It weighed almost nothing, and my fingers shook, on the inner face of the jade, in letters so fine I had to tilt it toward the window to read the
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