Chapter 17 The Weight of a Borrowed Name
We didn't talk much on the walk back. There wasn't a lot left to say after Aldren's small firelit room, and some things just need quiet afterward. Like a wound needs air before you can bandage it properly.
Mira finally broke it, somewhere past the kitchen garden wall. "If she really believes she's ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Wrong Kind of Mercy
2. Chapter 2 The Terms of Survival
3. Chapter 3 What the Prince Did Not Say
4. Chapter 4 The Dead Girl's Notes
5. Chapter 5 What Lives in the Dark
6. Chapter 6 Do Not Make a Sound
7. Chapter 7 The Shape of a Trap
8. Chapter 8 Nine Days
9. Chapter 9 The Blue Door
10. Chapter 10 What My Mother Left Behind
11. Chapter 11 The Word for Return
12. Chapter 12 A Conversation Between Equals
13. Chapter 13 The Attendant Who Waited
14. Chapter 14 What the Dead Girl Knew
15. Chapter 15 The Turnip Ledger
16. Chapter 16 The Name Aldren Would Not Say
17. Chapter 17 The Weight of a Borrowed Name
18. Chapter 18 The Language of Keepers
19. Chapter 19 Three Days
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