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Chapter 5: Eira’s Escape

Eira sat in the corner of her room, her knees pulled close to her chest as silent tears carved paths down her cheeks. The echo of her father’s words—“You are no daughter of mine”—rang in her ears, loud and cutting like shards of ice. Her hands trembled as she looked at them, palms still buzzing fain...