THE HOLLOW WOLF
His breathing paused for sometime, and he just stares at me, waiting, something wary creeping into his expression now, like he already suspects where this is going and can't quite let himself believe it yet.
"I'm Mara," I say, and saying it out loud finally, after everything, feels like setting down a weight I've been carrying since the moment I clawed my way out of that grave. "I'm Mara Quinn, Cassian. I never killed Leon. Someone did this to me, planned it, used whatever's down in that archive to steal my memory and put a confession in my mouth I never gave. And then somehow, I woke up again, in a body that wasn't mine, wearing a dead woman's face, and I've spent every day since trying to