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Chapter 1

Caught off guard by Mia’s shove, I landed hard on my knees as my cane slipped from my hand and rolled into the shadows behind the curtain. I reached for it by instinct, but a boot pinned it down, then kicked it farther away. That was when the lights came on overhead. Ever since the silver dust had burned my eyes, bright light had been unbearable. Now even the vague patches of color I could usually make out vanished, and I covered my face against the stabbing pain as tears spilled between my fingers. Laughter rose from the audience.“So that’s the blind wolf lost in the forest? That fall looked so real.”“Even her hands are shaking. Where did Mia find her?”I pressed my hands to the floor to get up, driving a rough splinter of scenery into my palm. As warm blood seeped from the cut, Nora, my wolf, whimpered inside my mind and tried to lend me some of her strength. The warmth faded before it could reach my limbs; the silver had damaged more than my eyes three years ago.“Keep moving, Ivy

Chapter 2

Mom pulled her into a hug at once. “It’s been three years, and you didn’t do it on purpose. Why bring it up again?”When she turned to me, weariness crept into her voice.“Ivy, your sister knows she made a mistake. How is she ever supposed to move on if you keep doing this?”All I had said was that I couldn’t see properly, yet somehow I was the one being made to feel guilty, just as I had been three years earlier. That day, I had been working on my graduation project in the academy’s art studio. Mia had come in carrying a small jar, saying she wanted to sprinkle some glitter on my Moon Goddess statue.When I spotted a warning label reading “POWDERED SILVER” on the jar, I caught her hand at once.“That’s powdered silver. Don’t touch it. Put the lid back on.”She pulled free, sending fine powder into my face before I could even close my eyes. Pain like red-hot needles drove me to my knees while Nora screamed inside my mind, the claws that had begun to emerge from my fingertips forcing th

Chapter 3

Broad white patches still obscured my vision after the last light went out, and the applause seemed to go on forever.The host announced Mia’s name, praising her work and the “unexpected touch” the blind wolf had brought to the final scene.As the actors hurried past without stopping, I crouched to feel for my cane, but all my fingers found was water.“Keller?”“Mom, I’m here.”Voices mingled with the rumble of scenery being moved. Nora just managed to pick out my family’s scents on the other side of the stage.I heard Mom say happily, “That’s my girl.”Dad asked Mia when the places at the Northern Academy would be announced. Keller seemed to take a few steps in my direction, but Mia called him back at once.“Keller, our teacher wants a group photo. Could you take it?”The footsteps stopped. Holding on to the base of the Moon Goddess statue, I inched onto a dry patch of floor, my eyes still streaming and gritty with pain whenever I tried to open them.“Where’s Ivy?” Mom asked, remember

Chapter 4

At the restaurant, Mia settled beside her parents and smiled up at Keller.“Take one more of us? Once I’m up north, I’ll only have pictures to look at when I miss you.”Keller raised his phone, but his smile faded as he saw the twenty-seven missed calls on the screen, all from Ivy.“I need to go back.”Mia caught his sleeve.“She’s still angry. If you go now, she’ll just start crying and asking why you took my side.”“Twenty-seven.” Keller stared at her. “She’s never called this many times.”Their mother set down her spoon and reached for the moonstone at her throat.“Are her eyes hurting again? You did take her glasses back, didn’t you?”“Yes,” Mia said without hesitation. “And I asked a classmate to keep an eye on her. Mom, the academy’s full of people. What do you think is going to happen?”Their father handed the server Ivy’s bowl of soup, which had begun to cool, and asked for it to be reheated.“Call her first. Not being able to see makes her anxious.”When Keller called back and

Chapter 5

For a moment, no one moved, and Keller stared at his phone as if the voice had come from somewhere else.“What body?” he asked. “Her name is Ivy Gray. She was in her sister’s performance tonight. I’m about to pick her up.”The warrior waited.“Is this some kind of joke? Did she ask you to call?”“Sir—”“Ivy.” His voice broke. “Let me talk to Ivy. I’m sorry. We shouldn’t have made you go onstage. We shouldn’t have left you there.”He pressed the phone harder against his ear.“I forgot you couldn’t see.”“Please come to the theater. A warrior will meet you at the entrance.”When the call ended, Mom bent to retrieve my glasses, her fingers missing them twice before she managed to pick them up.“Mia, tell me this is one of your classmates. Tell me they’re doing this because we upset her.”Mia said nothing. Dad was already calling the academy; when someone answered, he gave my name and listened for a few seconds before grabbing Mom’s arm.“We have to go.”Keller was out the door before eith

Chapter 6

“She could have called,” Mia said.“She did,” Rowan said, turning the phone in his hand so they could see the screen: twenty-seven calls to Keller, along with more to Mom and Dad. The last attempts had come only minutes before the crew found me.Mom shook her head. “The restaurant was so loud we didn’t hear it ring.”“I saw them,” Keller said. Mom turned toward him, but he was looking at Mia. “I wanted to come back, and you told me to let her calm down.”“I thought she was angry! How was I supposed to know?”“Because she asked for help,” said a girl stepping forward from behind the cordon, still wearing her costume.Mia’s head snapped around.“I told you your sister was calling you,” the girl continued. “You told me to leave her alone because she did this whenever she wanted attention.”“Stay out of it.”“You told the stage crew to leave her too, because your family would take care of her.”Rowan motioned for another warrior to take the girl’s statement.“We’ll speak to each of you sep

Chapter 7

My old classmates came to the farewell service two days later, among them Tess, who had shared my studio before I left the academy. She placed a flat cardboard folder beside my coffin and opened it to reveal copies of my designs for Return to the Moon, with my name written across the bottom of every page.“The academy still has the originals,” she said. “They were submitted three years ago. I’ve given the investigators the archive reference.”Mia stood very still by the door, where a warrior waited outside; she had been allowed to attend the service while the inquiry continued.“Ivy said I could use them,” she said.Tess took out her phone. “Then why did she ask me last week whether I still had her sketches so she could finish the project herself?”Keller looked up. “Finish it?”“With help from an assistant who could handle the fine detail while she directed the work.” Tess swallowed. “She was going to apply to come back next term.”I remembered making that call on an afternoon when No

Chapter 8

The theater recordings settled what had happened on the night I died: Mia had kicked my cane behind the curtain and told the lighting technician to use the full lighting cue, despite promising Mom that the lights would be dimmed. After the show, she had walked past me twice, moving out of reach the second time when I stretched out a hand toward her.Although our private links had not been recorded, Keller and Dad each gave statements describing my pleas for help and their decisions to block me. Mom brought in the glasses she had carried out of the theater while I stood beneath the lights. The stage manager admitted he had allowed scenery to be moved before the stage was cleared. The lift opening had not been secured, and the borrowed silver weapon should never have been left upright and uncovered. Those failures became part of the inquiry too, revealing how many chances there had been to keep me alive.When Rowan came to detain Mia, she backed into Mom.“It was five minutes. I only ask

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