Bound in chains
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"You could say this will be the last happy moment for this family. You could even say this was the last moment they were together as one, minus the father who lied dead only twenty feet away. "
Mara Ikian was a kid in a world where those live for thousands of years. She was taken at six years old by a group of healers with an ungodly agenda. Mara was nine when an experiment went too far.
Waking up 98 years later in a grave meant for a young child, Mara awakens to a world that went on without her, a world that changed drastically.
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