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Chapter Fifteen

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Mona's POV

The heart-shaped pendant burned against my palm, eighteen years of preserved phoenix fire suddenly alive and screaming. The moment my skin touched metal, the world exploded into memory that wasn't mine.

I was Lyra, running through darkness while my body tore itself apart from the inside. Poison in my veins, shadow toxin designed to kill phoenixes slowly, painfully. Behind me, footsteps patient as death. I turned to fight, fire gathering in my hands, and saw my killer's face.

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