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Ch: 18 The First Whisper of War.

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Wendy was shaking so hard the silver cup in her hands rattled against the tray.

"Miss..." she whispered, her voice watery. "Please. Just a little more. You need..."

"I know," I said. My voice was a low, scratchy thing, the muscles in my neck still screaming in protest. I took the cup from her with my one good hand and drank.

The broth was rich, hot, and tasteless. I drank it all. It wasn't food. It was fuel. Ammunition.

When Ares had left, the terror had left a void. But it wasn't a void of despair. It was cold. It was empty. It was still. The old Yara, the one who cried, the one who felt everything... she was gone. She'd been burned away by Tiana's lies, by Fiona's claws, by Ares's truth.

What was left was this. A hard, cold, observant thing in a broken-doll body.

Heal.

His last command. I would obey it. I would obey it with a ferocity that would have terrified me a week ago.

I spent the next two days in a disciplined, agonizing blur.

I ate every single thing Wendy brought me, my jaw
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