MEND ME IF YOU CAN.
The room swam, blurred at the edges, the present struggling to reclaim me from the ghost of that night.
My hands trembled violently as I reached for the edge of a table, the rough wood biting into my palm, splinters digging in like small knives. The tremor coursed up my arms, shaking my shoulders, threatening to betray me to the room, to the crowd of strangers whose gazes flicked like shadows across the tavern. I forced myself still, muscles trembling, teeth gritted, forcing the quake into submission. The cracks in me—the fragile fractures that ran like veins beneath my skin—had to remain hidden.
Because cracks meant weakness. And weakness was blood in the water. A scent predators could smel
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