After Natasha's guilty plea, Elara receives another request for a visit. The lawyer says Natasha wants to talk one more time before she's transferred to the state prison."Why?" Kieran asks when Elara tells him."I don't know. But she's pleading guilty and going away for twenty-five years. What harm can one more conversation do?""Famous last words."But Elara goes anyway. Something about Natasha's previous confession about Elena resonates with her. The idea that there might be others like her. Others who died and came back. Others who weren't believed.Natasha looks different this time. Calmer. More at peace. Like accepting her guilt lifted a weight."Thank you for coming again," she says. "I wasn't sure you would.""You asked. I'm curious why.""I'm not angry anymore. I spent weeks being furious. At you for surviving when Elena didn't. At myself for failing her. At the world for being so cruel. But anger is exhausting. I don't have energy for it anymore.""What do you have energy fo
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