MAYAHer cries pricked my ears, and all of my senses were heightened. The hair at the back of my neck had risen, and my hand began to shake uncontrollably. Was I really going mad?She burst in with agitated movements and fell to my side of the bed, throwing her arms around me and pulling me into a killing hug that melted all of my worries away.“Oh my god, Mara! Oh god!” She cried, examining my face. “I'm so sorry, my love. I'm so sorry!”She kissed my cheek, fawning over me, and I couldn't breathe a word. Mother. This was my mother, and…she's somehow Mara’s mother, too? I don't understand.Before I could straighten my back, Atlas' worried tone rang in my ears. “Mara, do you remember her?”I looked at him, trying to blink away the tears now speedily lingering in my eyes. I shook my head slowly, reluctantly.“N-no…”“But you just called her mother, right? That means you remember something, right? Mara…”I looked at my mother. No, the woman in the locket who stuck very close to me, pity
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