Katherine’s POVSeer Agnes had been alive for days after my rebirth. Walking, breathing, existing. I had been so relieved that maybe she had avoided death! But I was wrong.My hands were shaking. The blood was everywhere, soaking into the wood of the porch, running dark between the cracks. Too much of it. And some things, I was starting to understand, did not care about second chances.Some things were not written in ink.They were written in bone. In blood. In something so deep and permanent that no amount of foreknowledge or fury or careful planning could scrub them clean.What's going to happen — happens.Alexander grabbed me up and said, “Let’s get out of here.” The guards arrived fast, they took one look at Agnes's body, and the shock hit their faces, dropped jaws, the kind of silence that only comes when something sacred has been shattered.Then the Elders came.Six of them. Robes half-fastened, faces pale, eyes wide with disbelief as they stared at the woman who had held thi
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