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"That night, I found a card under my pillow." Mara reached and closed her fingers on nothing; the memory held the shape of paper. "It read: bring none but your name."
Mara felt the room tilt as if the floor had become a sloping stage. The actor behind her rubbed his temples and muttered, "Not the taking again."
Her skin went cold because she understood. The court did not just demand blood or fear. It wanted symmetry. If she had fed a name into the dark to leverage the world, the world would take from her in equal measure. It would take what she loved from the map of her mind until the memory itself was a story told to someone else.