The Second Mask
Chapter 7: The Second Mask
By now, she had learned to smile.
Not the real kind. Not the smiles she used to give her little sister before the collapse, or the ones she shared with lovers before everything was taken.
This was the second mask—a weapon disguised as warmth.
She wore it when Voss made her...
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Chapters
1. Prologue
2. The Silence Before the Storm
3. Seized
4. The Branding
5. The Dinner
6. The Flame Game
7. The First Blow
8. The Second Mask
9. Echos in the Wire
10. The Red Room
11. Collared Fire
12. Mirror Teeth
13. The Judas Kiss
14. The Inferno Show
15. The Smoldering Hunt
16. The Thorn Crown
17. The Velvet Guillotine
18. The Bed of Knives
19. The Obedience Ritual / The Poison Kiss
20. The Rite of Flesh and Fire
21. The Taste of War
22. The Pleasure Siege / The Beast Reborn
23. The Black Guard’s Shadow
24. The Confrontation
25. Voss’s Choice
26. The Bait and the Blade / Voss Breaks the Chain
27. The Lovers’ War Room / The Reckoning in Smoke
28. Dehn’s Betrayal / Lysia’s Name War
29. The Broadcast of Her Name
30. The March and the Trap
31. The Gate and the Ghost
32. The Mask of Liberty
33. The Remains/The Ashes Speak
34. The Fire That Stays
35. Into the Maw of Smoke
36. The Wages of Fire
37. The Knife Inside the Veil
38. Ashes that Breathe
39. Sparks in the Hollow
40. Edenfall
41. The Man in the Ashes
42. What Monsters Learn
43. The Broken Crown
44. Embers in the Blood
45. Fault Lines Beneath
46. The Ties That Burn
47. The Edge of Flame
48. Beneath the Smoke
49. The Seeds of Collapse
50. The Poison Within
51. The Burning Bluff
52. Sparks in the Ash
53. Cleansers
54. The Hollow Crown
55. Smoke Signals
56. The Woman in the Cell
57. Dust and Dawn
58. The Burning Map
59. Echoes of the Girl
60. The Devil’s Bargain
61. City of Ash and Light
62. Blood and Bloom
63. The Last Door
64. A Future Named Liberty
65. What Once Was
66. New Relief
67. The Firekeeper’s Daughter
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