THE DOOR
Mwajuma took a deep, shuddering breath of the jasmine-scented air.
"You couldn't save me from them, Ressi," Mwajuma murmured softly, a single tear slipping down her dark cheek, catching the bioluminescent light. "The men of our world broke everything we loved. But I can save the women of this one. I can be the wall that you couldn't be."
She reached up, her thick fingers brushing against the iron-shale collar Zuri had given her.
With that single gesture, the Earth-Breaker consciously, willingly severed the final tether to her humanity. She buried the ghost of her brother. She buried her old name. She buried the girl who had tried to save a corrupt village, and fully embraced the Anvil.
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