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Chapter 77

Author: Electron
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The light from the monitor flickered like a heartbeat in the dark room. Savannah sat forward, her breath lodged somewhere between ribs and memory. Rhett clicked through the surveillance files again, hands trembling slightly. The footage was grainy—standard hospital security—but unmistakable. A woman, hunched in posture but graceful in gait, entered the psychiatric ward. She wore Savannah’s face.

Hair tied back, coat cinched at the waist, no makeup. She moved like someone who had rehearsed being invisible. But it was the smile that broke Savannah.

Not a stranger’s smile. Not the cold-blooded smile of the imposter. It was hers. A perfect mimicry of her own forced expressions—dull around the edges, weaponized in crisis. A mirror image that walked with her mannerisms, held her stillness, mimicked the way she glanced over her shoulder before entering the building.

“She’s alive,” Rhett whispered. “And she’s pretending to be you.”

Savannah's voice cracked. “Is it… Mira?”

“She checked in unde
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