The silence of winter gives way to screaming. The front door. Wood splintering. Michelle's eyes—wide, dark, beautiful—watching me from the floor as the shadows moved in. Valkyr. I saw her face in every cracked mirror. In every muzzle flash. The past wasn't a memory. It was a room with no doors.
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