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Chapter 141: What She Meant to Us

Lauren

The sky looked like it had been painted in ash. Flat. Still. Unyielding.

There wasn’t any wind, not even the usual rustle through the trees. The forest just... watched. Held its breath with the rest of us.

Sophia’s funeral felt wrong. Not because she didn’t deserve one—though there were whisp...