Cora sat in the darkness clutching the necklace. Her fingers traced the crystal pendant over and over. Trying to remember. Trying to pull memories from twenty-five years ago out of the fog that had obscured them for so long.The masked woman had said this was the same room. The place where Cora had been kept when she was four. Before the orphanage. Before everything.But Cora did not remember any room. Did not remember being taken. Her earliest clear memory was the orphanage. Margaret's cruelty. The other children. Years of suffering.Everything before that was fragments. Disconnected images that made no sense when she tried to piece them together.Except now, holding this necklace, something was shifting. Like a door in her mind was starting to open.Cora closed her eyes. Concentrated. Let her fingers keep tracing the familiar shape of the crystal while her mind reached backward into darkness.A woman's voice. "This will keep you safe, sweetheart. As long as you wear this, Mommy will
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