Neither of us knows anymore.
The words lingered in the narrow passage long after Evelyn had spoken them.
Elena stood motionless.
The silver locket still rested in her trembling hand.
She looked from the faded photograph inside it to Evelyn’s face.
Every instinct told her she should feel complete.
She had found the sister she had mourned without remembering.
Yet standing before Evelyn did not feel like finding something.
It felt like losing everything she thought she knew.
Marcus was the first to move.
“We have to keep going.”
His voice was low but urgent.
“They’re close.”
As if answering him, another beam of light swept across the tunnel behind them.
Someone shouted.
“Search every passage.”
“They can’t have gone far.”
Adrian immediately stepped between Elena and the voices
