Chapter 631: The Illness That Opened the Door to Something Worse
Sophia recovered.
It did not happen all at once, nor did it feel like something she had achieved on her own. The strength returned to her body gradually, slipping back into her limbs in a way that felt almost unfamiliar, as though it had belonged to someone else for far too long before being given back. There had been a point during the fever when she had been certain she would not survive it, when each breath had felt too shallow and each moment too heavy, but that point had passed without her understanding how.
Even now, she could not explain why she knew this with such certainty, but the answer settled quietly within her all the same.
Her mother had made sure of it.
The realization did not comfort her, nor did it disturb her in the way it perhaps should have. It simply existed, unquestioned, like so many other things in her life that she had learned not to examine too closely.
