Vera’s voice returns to me: You are the one who decides now how to keep our Line alive, Briana Matthews. But Vera doesn’t understand that this world has curdled her amazing gift into a curse. After eight generations of fear and soul-tearing grief, of our mothers dying when we needed them most, of losing the knowledge that could have connected us to one another and to Vera herself… the old violence hasn’t died; it has simply found new life. Our bodies break down like clockwork, our mothers die early, our daughters die young, then it begins anew. Our cycle is death and confusion—and I have not
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