Mira’s POV.

"Ashen never got to live. But this place honors them by helping others live fully." "And I was raised on lies. But I'm using that experience to help these kids have truth." "Everything terrible that happened... it somehow led here. To this."

"Does that make it worth it?" Rowan asks. "No. The terrible things were still terrible. Ashen's death. Your manipulation. All of it."

"But we can choose what we build from the wreckage. And this," I gesture to the sanctuary, "this is what we ...