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Moiety
Chapter Fifteen: Rupture
There are the things we share. The things we keep hidden. And then the things that slowly kill us without our knowing.
Liara expects the tears when she looks down at her mother's still-warm body slumped dead at her feet. She expects the sharp, branding fear along her tongue, even when she turns to Shepard and lies, whispering "I'm fine" in a voice that sounds too much like Benezia's.
But she doesn't expect the silent, deadly rupture of her heart that begins to take root that day, poisoning the air in her lungs.
The galaxy isn't kind to delicate things.