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The screams of my people grow louder in my mind, and suddenly I’m screaming with them, too, pounding my fists on the ground. Atwood tries to comfort me, but I shove him away. My nail makes contact with his cheek, scratching his flesh so hard that it draws blood, but I don’t even notice. All I can hear are screams, and all I can see are the flames that burnt down the meeting house with my people inside.

Alanna "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’" The doctor’s words cut through the air like a knife, making everything around me blur into the background. My heart pounded in my chest, the sound of my pulse deafening in my ears. Complication. The word echoed in my mind, twisting my gut into knots. I had done everything I could to protect Nolan and the kids, but it wasn’t enough.

The warmth was barely there. But it was there. Her hand trembled. She cried. Not from grief. From remembering. The tear fell on the flower. The petal opened further. The scent strengthened. The warmth grew. The light flickered. Her cry was small. But it was remembering. It was feeling. It was choosing. The cry spread. Through the ruins. Through the bare ground. Through the broken oak. Through every reality. Some heard it and remembered. Some heard it and felt. Some heard it and chose.

“You’ve got to believe in that strength. You can’t let them break you.” Back in the janitor's closet, Lyra’s tears fell freely now, mixing with the blood on her face. She remembered her father’s words, his unwavering belief in her strength. “Don’t let anyone play with you or your hearts,” he had said. “Take their heads off.”

Minutes later, she walked in and gave me a reassuring pat on the arm before standing beside Rose. “Okay,” I began, inhaling deeply. “Not everyone is here, but it doesn’t matter. The quote I said in the square earlier—it was from Lyra. My mother.” I didn’t wait for the inevitable reactions. “That quote… I believe it’s our way out of here.” Robin’s eyes sharpened immediately. Zane frowned from the bed. “How can a quote get us out of here?” “That’s why I needed to speak with Robin,” I explained. My voice steadied as I repeated the words. “She said, a path becomes one only when it’s walked… and one that can become abandoned is left.”

Meemaw clung to my arm, tears streaming down her face as she whispered desperately, "Please, let's reach there in time. Let's save him." My heart ached for her, my resolve deepening. "Meemaw, we will do everything we can," I reassured her, my voice filled with determination. "We must reach there before they execute him. Hold on to hope, for we'll fight until the very end. I promise you, I will make sure I rip those people apart."

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“I’m the vanguard of a new movement. Fuck destiny. ‘I am the master of my fate! I am the captain of my soul!’” “What is she talking about?” I ask Pritchard. The swagger he came out of the bushes with has all but disappeared, replaced by a long-suffering tension. He shakes his head. "I don’t know half the time, man.” Nia rolls her eyes. “It’s from ‘Invictus?’ By William Ernest Henley? Everyone knows that one.” Pritchard looks at me and tilts his head. I shrug. I’ve never heard of him either.

“We’ve lived in poverty, but we’ve never lost our dignity. Grandfather—you may be old, but to me, you’re still the brave hunter I grew up admiring. I am who I am because of both of you. Atthaleyah Galina is not weak. I can do this. Trust me... I have to go—for our family.” ---

“You’ll learn. You are the smartest person I ever met. Even back when you were a teenager, you were smarter than me.” “I don’t feel smarter,” said Jeannine, looking out to the infinite blackness that surrounded them. “Trust me, you are. You just need to act the part. “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” Matthew 12:20.” Jeannine snorted. “You quoting the Bible at me now?” Curtis laughed, too. “You would’ve had a lot of that if you’d come to live with Georgina and me.”