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Chapter 397 - Malrik's Slave

Hades

For a second, I just stared. My mind tried to reconcile the reality in front of me with every suspicion, every theory I'd carried into this place.

This… was not the reunion I had braced for.

Her eyes shifted, slow and unsteady, as though searching for shapes she could no longer fully see. They landed somewhere near me, and for a fleeting heartbeat, there was a flicker; recognition, confusion, fear, it was impossible to tell.

"Evie?" Her voice scraped out of her throat like dry leaves dragged over stone.

The longing as she spoke the name felt familiar. My gut twisted.

I looked at the stump. It stopped right above where the elbow would have been. The arm the Cauterium Gammas had found had started right above the elbow. How many people just suddenly lost their arms? It made no sense that this was not Ellen. Everything pointed at her being the owner of the arm I had seen, therefore this should have been Ellen, not an old woman who looked to be approaching eighty.

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