~ Nyra ~I woke up to Mavira sitting on the edge of my bed eating an apple.I stared at her."How did you get in?" I said."The door wasn't fully locked." She took another bite. "You need to fix that. Anyone could walk in.""You walked in.""Exactly." She stood up. "Get dressed. I want to show you something before the elders start their morning walk through the east corridor.""Show me what?"She was already heading for the door.I stared at the ceiling for two seconds. Then I got up.---She took me to the rooftop.There was an access door at the top of the north staircase — plain wood, easy to miss, no handle on the outside. Mavira pressed a specific spot on the frame and it clicked open.We stepped out and I stopped walking.The whole estate spread below us. The courtyard, the training field, the garden. And beyond the walls — the forest. Miles of it, dark and ancient, stretching all the way to the mountains on the north side.I hadn't seen the full picture before. Just pieces thro
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