Elara povThe question arrives gently.Too gentle for what it does to me.“Elara,” the healer says, standing across the chamber with a file he should not have opened without shaking. “Did you ever inform Alpha Silas that you were pregnant?”For a moment, I don’t understand the sentence.It sits in the air like broken language.Then it lands.Pregnant.The word doesn’t feel new.It feels… remembered.And something inside my chest tightens immediately, like a door being forced open from the inside.I try to answer.Nothing comes out.My throat refuses me.My fingers curl slowly against my palm instead.And thenI hear it.Not the healer anymore.Not the room.Something else.A memory trying to break through.…..,I shake my head slightly.“No…”My voice is thin.Unstable.Not denial.Confusion.Because I am trying to locate this truth inside a life that already feels incomplete.The healer watches me carefully, as though he understands I am not just answering a question.I am deciding w
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