Elara"I have three days, Kate.""I'll be back tonight. Don't do anything that gets you moved to a worse cell.""What's worse than this?""I genuinely don't want to find out," she said, and her footsteps moved away from the door, until I couldn't hear them at all.The first few hours after sending Kate off, I spent it thinking.There was a difference between that and panicking because… I had to keep reminding myself that the moment I stopped what I had to do, that panic was going to shoot up the clouds…It was right there, underneath everything, waiting for me to stop moving long enough to let it surface.I went back through every interaction I could remember between Fenrir and Vesper. The first time she showed up at the tournament, I remembered the way Fenrir's face had changed when he recognized her.She mentioned an apartment and the fire escape, the food she used to bring when his mother worked late… all of that had been real, I believed it completely, because you couldn't fake th
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