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Prologue

Emilia

I can sleep It’s strange, but I can always sleep I learned it on that grio

Sleep

Forget

Sleep until they wake you Sleep until they make you

The past has a way of creeping up on you

Of repeating

Reappearing

I don’t know if ht it would I thought it had I thought the night I crawled out of thatand away from that house, that I had beat it That I had somehow survived

But the thing with surviving is you have to keep doing it Every Single Day You never beat the thing that breaks you, not really It owns you It’s alith you, no matter what It becomes a part of you Like skin Like broken skin

Like scar tissue

The night Giovanni Santa Maria stalked into ain My life on repeat The past reappearing

Sunshine That’s what he calls me

I’h

He’s a powerful erous than any I’ve battled before But I will battle It’s in my nature

Just as it’s in his to win

He’ll take my body He already has