The voice, a tapestry of familiarity, wove through the air.


    Rhea’s gaze lifted, and a tremor danced within her frame as recognition dawned, words escaping her


    trembling lips.


    “Sister… How unexpected was your return?”


    A jolt of trepidation surged through Rhea, her eyes widening in disbelief at the sight before her.


    The doctor, too, cast a nce, noting the neer’s appearance-a figure lean and graceful, hair


    framing her face, the fall of bangs lending an air of mystique. d in a coffee-hued trench coat cinched


    at the waist, the woman’s svelte form exuded an aura both captivating and peculiar.


    “Are you two sisters?”


    The doctor’s query hung in the air, met not with fondness but with a shadow of fear in Rhea’s reply.


    “Doctor, your presence is no longer required. A private exchange awaits my sister and me.” Shera cast


    a swift nce towards the doctor, a silent plea forpliance.


    The doctor withdrew, her tools in tow. With the door closed, Shera advanced with measured steps.


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    She beheld Rhea with an unsettling smile, a gaze that sent shivers cascading through Rhea’s being.


    Rhea remained ensnared within the grip of her terror, herposure yet to regain its footing. Fingers


    clenched the sheet, a desperate tether to reality, while the cadence of her heart quickened in tandem


    with each measured step Shera took.


    In recent times, her attempts to connect with the distant vi had been incessant, a prelude to her


    imminent visit and an act of reiming the ce for herself.


    Thoughts once whispered the tale of Shera’s fate, consumed by illness or spirited away from the vi’s


    confines. The servants, unable to exin it to her, must have fled, leaving Rhea’s queries unanswered.


    Yet now, the truth seemed to present itself in somber rity.


    Shera lingered in the space, a smile upon her lips and eyes affixed upon Rhea, a gaze so intense that


    it etched a frigid path through Rhea’s core.


    Yet, as if a curtain dropped on the scene, the smile vanished, reced by a ferocity that held Rhea


    captive. Shera’s fingers, once extending with the weight of malevolence, encircled Rhea’s neck in a


    sinister embrace that sought dominion.


    “Rhea, I stand here to im your existence.”


    Struggles were feeble, sounds were mere whispers in the face of impending darkness.


    “Sister… Aid. Me…”


    Shera’s eyes, wide as if in the throes of a primal hunt, remained locked on her prey.


    “The depths of your cruelty know no bounds! A captive within foreign shores, a puppeteer of


    heartlessness towards your own flesh and blood.


    Five yearster, Inguished there, shackled by circumstances…


    I’m your sister, who tended to you as a mother would. How ruthlessly you’d cast me aside, a pawn in


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    A ze of ferocity ignited within Shera’s eyes, hues of red eclipsing reason.