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After two years away, Willow returns to Nevermore to find it preserved like a photograph in time. Same faces, same voices, the same long, endless, dimly lit halls. And yet, everything feels different, as if the once-familiar halls and corners have become foreign to her senses.
It begins with Isaac. Pale, distant, and far too quiet for his age, he carries within his chest a secret no one would dare believe possible: a mechanical heart that beats with an unnatural rhythm. Rumours whisper about him, but no one dares to ask, until Willow. Drawn to his silence, his intelligence, and the strange flicker of nothingness in his eyes, she begins to notice the cracks and find her way in.
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