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Chapter 138

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The envelope lay on the marble countertop as if it had been smuggled in from another world—a small, flat, unassuming rectangle, beige and unmarked except for a printed return address from a laboratory several states away. The kitchen around Savannah felt too still, as though the air itself was holding its breath for her. Light from the window fractured through the rain-streaked glass, spilling across the counter in pale, almost colorless strips, turning the envelope into something almost ceremonial.

Her fingers hovered over it before touching, testing its weight, the thinness of its cardboard. It was absurd, she thought, that something so light could hold so much gravity—like a seed that could grow into a forest you didn’t want to walk into. Her pulse was a quiet drumbeat in her ears. She slit the seal with the blade of a paring knife, the motion deliberate, reverent, as though the paper might scream if torn too roughly.

Inside: a sterile packet, a folded instruction sheet, and two co
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