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Everything to Save Her
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Elias doesn't run. He grabs the lamp and asks the thing flatly what it wants. The black-eyed Mara tilts her head. 'To stay. You opened the door. I only walked through it.' Then her face softens, just for a second, and the real Mara surfaces underneath, terrified. 'Elias, it's still in here with me,' she gasps, before the black floods back.
Elias holds her by the shoulders and refuses to let go, calling her name over and over while the thing thrashes inside her. Bit by bit, the black drains from her eyes. Mara collapses into him, fully herself, breathing hard. 'It's gone,' she whispers. 'You pulled me back.' Whatever it cost the timeline, for tonight, he kept her.
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