Chapter 112 A Heavy Burden.

The night was quiet, almost too quiet, as I sat by the window, gazing out at the moonlit landscape of Ashwood. The stillness outside was a stark contrast to the chaos swirling inside me. My thoughts were a tangled mess, each one more complicated and painful than the last. I felt like I was standing at the edge of a cliff, peering into an abyss of uncertainty, and the weight of my secrets was threatening to pull me under. It was hard to believe how much my life had changed in such a short time. Just a few months ago, I had been an ordinary girl, navigating the ups and downs of high school, struggling with the usual teenage worries about friends, love, and the future. Now, I was caught in a web of lies, tangled in a battle that spanned generations, and burdened with the knowledge of who I truly was—or rather, who I was connected to. The revelation that Elsa was my half-sister had hit me like a ton of bricks. It was surreal, almost impossible to comprehend, that the girl I had been at o