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Chapter 75

POV: Isadora Bellini

The fire had been out for hours.

Or so I thought.

I woke with ash on my fingers and Lira’s voice in my ear—not loud, not panicked. Calm. Like the sound of roots growing beneath the forest floor. Like something older than blood. She didn’t knock. She didn’t speak from the thresho...