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Chapter 5 

Zara 

I wake up in the hospital one morning about six weeks after the accident, and for the first time since the crash, I feel absolutely zero pain. 

No pulling on my stitches, no headache, no cramps in my joints. And by waking up pain-free, I step fully into a life that I don’t recognize. 

In a way, the strangest part about this particular morning isn’t the lack of physical pain, but the absence of something else entirely.