REJECTED BY THE MOON
I said, forcing the words out past the tightness in my throat.
Akira didn't answer, and that silence was worse than anything she could have said.
Jada had been a girl who believed rejection meant there was nothing left of her worth saving. If someone had been watching, if someone had understood exactly what the covenant was doing to girls like us, they had watched her disappear anyway and decided, quietly, that the cost wasn't worth paying yet.
"You knew about Jada," I said, turning to face Akira fully. "You knew what rejection could do."
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