The Devil's Debt
The question cut her deeper than any blade could.
Her head fell into her hands, fingers knotting in her hair. She pressed her palms hard against her skull as if she could crush the thought before it consumed her. Blackness bloomed behind her closed eyes, dizzying, merciful. For a moment she clung to it. But the silence pressed closer, demanded answers, and she could not escape them.
Had she misread him?
Was this his final punishment, tailored with surgical precision—a way to rid himself of her without needing to dirty his own hands? Send her against a fortress no one else had breached, call it payment of debt, and let her be erased like the others?
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