The drive to the safe house was unusually quiet. Emily sat in the back seat with Lily beside her, watching the city disappear behind them through the window. Cars moved along the roads, people hurried along the sidewalks, and shops were beginning to open for the day. Everything looked completely normal, yet Emily couldn’t stop thinking about how different her own life had become in just a few hours.Only yesterday, she had been an ordinary girl from an orphanage who knew almost nothing about her past. Now she knew that someone had experimented on her when she was a child, that Helix had been searching for her, and that the strange symbol on her wrist was connected to everything. The worst part was that she still didn’t know how much of what she had been told was actually true.Lily had fallen asleep against her shoulder, exhausted from everything that had happened at the hospital. Emily gently adjusted her position so she would be more comfortable, then looked toward the front of the
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