Darkness had texture. It wasn’t empty; it pressed from every side like a heartbeat held too long.Mia floated in it, weightless, unsure whether she was asleep or simply unmade. Threads of silver drifted from her fingertips, disappearing into the black. Each pulse of light revealed flashes of what might have been sky, then ash, then nothing at all.Where am I?Her own voice echoed back in dozens of tones, some gentle, some cruel."Where you always were," the voices replied, "between mercy and ruin."A figure stepped out of the dark—her father first, smiling like he used to when he thought she wasn’t looking. Behind him, her stepmother and the hybrids she’d saved, faces of every soul she’d failed to protect. All of them watching.Mia whispered, “No. You’re not real.”The smiles cracked. One by one, they tilted their heads, eyes turning red.“You made us real,” said the chorus. “You gave us life through memory. Now remember what you did with it.”The darkness twisted, forming scenes: vi
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