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The possibility behind the final door was not a memory of someone who had died.It was a memory of someone who had never been born.For several seconds, Evelyn could hear nothing except the fading echoes of the silver path. The doors throughout the House had begun to release their memories, and the light that filled the passage should have brought peace. Instead, the final door remained shut, its dark surface pulsing with a heartbeat that did not belong to anyone living.The pale man stood motionless beside Elarienne, staring at it as though he had spent centuries searching for this moment and had only just discovered that he was terrified of finding what waited beyond it.“What does that mean?” Evelyn asked.Oren looked at the door.“It means the House preserved a possibility that never became a life. Not a child who lived and died, not a soul waiting to cross, and not a memory of a person who once existed. It preserved the possibility of someone who might have been born if the choic