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As the official makes his way to begin what is sure to be a lengthy speech detailing the blandest parts of the people who were taken from us, I squeeze Remy’s hand a little more firmly.
He looks over at me, meeting my eyes, and speaks in a low tone.
“This will not stand.” Each syllable rings with conviction.
“No,” I assure him, my voice low with a promise. “It won’t.”
Because we might have made mistakes that day, but we are not the only ones.
There was blood on Khijhana’s claws. A wound on Madame’s arm. Dread in her eyes when she saw Natia.
She may not be human, but she is still perfectly capable of things like fear and pain, and most importantly, death.
And now… There is nothing left in me that will hesitate to deliver her that final blow.
EPILOGUE
MELODI
Iwonder if the waves are getting louder, or if it’s my imagination.
If that’s just another thing I’ve dreamt up in my head to fill the endless hours I spend alone. Insilence.
Like the man with the perfect face, with the furious, haunting eyes that call to me nearly as strongly as the sea itself does.
Even now, cerulean water churns and rages against the cliffs, hundreds of feet below my balcony, and it might be the single most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
Next to that face, of course.
The fall alone would kill me.
Perhaps that’s why the waves call to me, begging me to lose myself in their ethereal song, to surrender my body to their fathomless depths.
It doesn’t sound like death’s voice, though. It sounds like belonging.
Likehome.
But that’s probably just another illusion, one more sign that my mind is cracking, the way I always knew it would. It seems inevitable, the slow descent into madness that finds me in solitude. In grief.
After all, I am my mother’s daughter.
