Chapter 13 - The Child's Voice
The courtyard fell into an absolute, suffocating quiet. Elena stared at the small blonde girl holding the golden key she had spent six agonizing months searching for.
Lily didn't look down. She looked straight up into Elena’s eyes, her young voice entirely stripped of tears, replaced by an eerie, precise cadence.
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"She said you can't find this," Lily stated, pointing her small finger directly at Elena.
The sentence slammed into Elena like a physical blow. It was an exact repetition of the words Elena had muttered under her breath inside the study when she found the safe empty—words spoken when she thought she was completely alone. The child hadn't just accidentally found the medallion; she had been watching Elena, retrieving the key from its true hiding place before Elena could ever reach it.
