Death: Who Am I (ONC 2021)
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Lies. Aisling hates them and to find out the truth about herself might be one of the most difficulties thing ever. As she travels to past civilizations she and others, archeologists, uncover a place were a physical death exists. There death reveal a more deeper mystery about herself. Who is she? Why doesn't she exist in deaths record? And what else is death hiding? Something isn't right here and she plans to find out the truth.
Aisling needs to dig into her past to find clues about her father. Who, or what ever he is? From there she could begin to solve not just the mystery of herself but of her world, Aura.
There is no harm in learning the truth, or is there.
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