Bound by Voices
“Not one of you. One of us. The curse takes whichever heart holds the truest love.”
> “Meaning?” she demanded.
> “It’s not testing you, Mira. It’s testing me.”
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The room trembled — walls warping, mirrors liquefying into blue light.
Elara’s voice echoed, layered and inhuman.
> “Then choose.”
Adrian turned to Mira, eyes filled with a mixture of terror and tenderness. “If I say your name, the curse will take her. If I say hers—”
> “I disappear,” Mira whispered.