EMILIA’S POV

The door clicked shut behind Doctor Raina, and the silence that followed felt like a weight pressing down on my chest.

I didn’t move. I couldn’t.

Her words were still echoing in my head—sharp, cold, heavy.

I tried to breathe, but the air felt thick. The lights above me buzzed softly, the monitor beside me kept its slow, steady rhythm—but none of it felt real anymore. The world had shifted. Everything I thought I knew about myself, about Maximus, about this place—it all suddenly felt like a fragile illusion waiting to crack.

The Milandra spirit. Inside me.

The idea sounded insane, impossible… but deep down, some part of...