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Chapter 47 - Chapter 47 TRUTH STONE

SERAPHINA'S POV

The world above was a blur of ripples and shadows, but all I could feel was the suffocating cold.

My limbs flailed, heavy and useless, tangled in the wet fabric of my dress. Panic gripped me, more vicious than the chill. My lungs screamed, but my mind screamed louder.

'Not again. Not again!'

The koi pond might've looked ornamental, and it wasn't all too deep. But water—any body of water—had always terrified me. They were all the same—dark, unpredictable, and greedy.

I was a child again, caught in a flashback I couldn't escape—cruel hands shoving me from behind into the lake behind the Lockwood estate, struggling under the weight of my own clothes, the absence of air.

The slow suffocation and the frightening clarity that I was going to die, never really having lived.

Back then, my father had pulled me out. This time, I didn't know if anyone would.

Then something broke through the cold.

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