Alika’s POVFor the first time since that night, I touched my stomach.My hands were shaking—not from the cold, but from the image still clinging to my mind. Her belly was swollen. And that smile... God. It wasn’t human. It was Sybilla’s. And it came from my face.I took a slow breath, looked down, and ran my fingers over my own skin. Nothing had changed. No bump. No life inside. But I knew—mirrors in this manor never just reflected.Sometimes they showed the future.Sometimes, they revealed truths we weren’t ready to face.From outside, a distant clock chimed once.One.Then silence.And in that silence, I heard it again—faint, fragile, but sharp as bone: the sound of a baby crying. Distant, like from the attic. The same cry that came every night… at the exact same hour.Dad used to say, if you hear a baby crying in an empty house, don’t look for where it’s coming from. But I’d
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