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Chapter 5: A New Beginning

Chapter 5: A New Beginning

One year later, Mariana and Nico returned to the shoreline where they had been rescued.

The sea looked calm.

Nothing about it revealed what had happened that terrible night.

Nico picked up a smooth white shell.

"Mom?"

"Yes?"

"Are we safe now?"

Mariana smiled and squeezed his hand.

"We're together."

"That's what makes us safe."

She looked toward the horizon.

Her parents had spent years believing power meant controlling the story.

But stories built on lies always have an ending.

The truth may be delayed.

It may be buried.

It may even be feared.

But as long as someone is willing to protect it, the truth has a way of finding the surface.

And this time...

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it stayed there.

The End.

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