MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Thirty Two — Coming Home
They drove through the main gate of Ironveil at nine in the morning.
No running.
No hiding.
No dark roads and no headlights off and no order moved up to tonight sitting on a phone screen.
Just driving through the front gate in the morning light like people who had every right to be there.
Which they did.
Mara sat in the front seat and looked at Ironveil through the windshield and felt something she had not expected to feel.
Nothing.
Not fear. Not anger. Not the specific shrinking feeling of a person returning to a place that had spent twenty two years telling them they did not matter.
Just nothing.
Like the city had lost its power over her somewhere between a basement and a mountain clearing and had not gotten it back.
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