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Soleil said quietly, “You’re not Aurora”

Even if this woman looked and sounded like Aurora, this person was not her sister

In front of Soleil, the personas Aurora became deadly still

“You found ht you would”

Before Soleil could answer, icy fingers gripped her wrist

“I taught you very well, indeed”

Soleil jerked That voice—-

The woman looked down

When she looked up again, she no longer looked like Aurora

This time, the woman looked like Crystal but not as Soleil had ever seen her

Her hair had turned cohastly shade of blue, her eyes red-riined a wraith would be

A knife appeared in the air, and Soleil caught sight of her face on its shiny surface—-

Blue, like her dying, haunted eyes—-

The knife went down

Soleil screa its way to her heart it went completely past her

It was as if Crystal was trying to cut so behind her

She turned around and gasped when she saw that she was still on the bed, and a thread that seemed to sparkle with every color connected her two bodies

Instinctively, she tried stopping Crystal fro the thread, but it was too late

The thread snapped

An invisible force swept into the house out of nowhere, sucking Soleil out of it

The rest of the soul seer’s words echoed in her mind

Don’t fall

Don’t fall

Don’t fall

But she was already falling

Chapter Eleven

An endless canvas of silvery white blankness spread out behind them, while in front of Soleil and Crystal was her bedroo like a corpse

Her farim-faced

“Is it the curse?” the baron asked tautly

Ilie shook his head “No This has a different taint to it” He picked up her wrist, but the faint pulse offered only the smallest assurance “She’s alive, but barely” His jaw hardened “Whoever did it is still here So us I can smell its scent”