Chapter 104 – The Truth She Didn't Want to Accept
POV: Liora
There comes a point when denial becomes more exhausting than the truth.
I reached that point three days after the memory of the mountain fortress.
Three days of pretending I could still separate myself from what was happening.
Three days of convincing myself that the memories were simply visions.
Echoes.
Remnants.
Something passive.
Something harmless.
I couldn't lie to myself anymore.
The memories weren't random.
They weren't accidents.
And they certainly weren't harmless.
They were trying to show me something.
The problem was that I still didn't know what.
I sat alone inside the hidden chamber beneath the fortress.
The same chamber where everything had begun to unravel.
The same chamber where I had learned the White Wolves were created.
The same chamber where a chained woman wearing my face waited in eternal silence.
She was there now.
Watching me.
Not speaking.
Not moving.
Simply existing.
