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Chapter 204 - The Fool 2

IMOGEN'S POV

The dream always started the same way. Fire licking at the edges of my vision. Smoke filling my lungs. The sound of my parents screaming from somewhere I couldn't reach.

But this time, when I pushed through the burning doorway, it wasn't my mother and father I found.

It was Talia.

She was standing in the center of our living room, but it wasn't our apartment anymore. The walls had melted away, replaced by the charred skeleton of that house. The floorboards beneath her feet glowed like embers.

"Imogen," she said, and her voice sounded so normal. So alive. "You came back."

I tried to run to her, but my feet wouldn't move. The floor had turned to quicksand, pulling me down with every step.

"I'm sorry," I called out. "I'm so sorry I left you alone."

Talia smiled, but there was something wrong with it. Something that made my stomach turn. "It's okay. I understand why you had to go."

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