The Mute Muse's Revenge

ed as a ghost, tether

t madly in love with the city's most renowned a

my younger sister Lily was dying, and desp

identity, transforming me into Ethan'

, and his blatant preference for Vivienne, his "white mo

birthday, but he never came home, the special me

of alcohol, saw my absence, and woke m

a searing pain through my leg as I fell hard on the m

appy tune as he spoke to Vivienne, admiring a sculpture he' d bou

th accusation: "Vivienne is so upset! Ethan belong

y dinner, shoving me until my head met a sharp tab

ncussion as "drama," and my grandmother asking th

allergy, then feigning a cut to get Ethan' s

ees before her, demanding an apology I couldn'

scalding coffee all over me, leaving me crumpled on the floor with s

servants, as my heart, a dead, calm

severe toll the mission had taken: a ter

obstetrics clinic, where she brandished a sonogram

acrificed for was a lie, and ther

: to reclaim my iden

"I want my old face back..