First Bite
My reflection stared back at me with damp curls falling around her face, brown skin still flushed from hot water, green eyes too bright in a way that had nothing to do with sleep and everything to do with the thing beneath my skin that had never fully gone quiet.
The Crown was not visible.
That was what I told myself.
No shards of mirror floating behind my head. No halo of broken glass. No ancient voice whispering commands through my pulse. No dramatic gothic nonsense, thank God, because I had rent, laundry, and actual adult nonsense to deal with now.
But invisible did not mean gone.
The Crown lived where ordinary things were supposed to live. Behind my eyes. In my bones. Under my tongue whe
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