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Powerful and forbidden secrets. Secret Empires built on unmarked graves. There is a power pulsing through me. I shook off my nightmares, but they are circling back. Except now instead of others coming for me, I see my face and my jaded eyes. Only older and wiser. But my mouth now whispers grave secrets. And as they say, two can keep a secret if one of us is dead.

Shh. My name is Calliope, my name is Melpomene, my name is Aurora, and my name is Saffronia. We waited too long, and the linked chains drowned us with their weight. So we gave up. Not the will to fight, the will not to. These names are on my head. We rise as one, or we jump together.