River witch
Already changed.
Already Sovereign.
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Sefina stepped beside her. “That’s the final shape.”
Jonas said nothing. His hands were trembling. “You don’t have to do this, Maya.”
She looked at them both.
“Everything I’ve done—good, terrible—has led here. If I turn back now, the story finishes without me.”
She picked up the dagger.
The Testament whispered its final words:
> “Speak the name that ends the tide.
Or become the new one.”