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Maya's Point of View:
The hallway blurred around me as Scarlet dialed furiously on her phone. My head was pounding, and the flashes of Amelia Montes's face filled my mind, slipping past my control like sand through my fingers. Why did she seem so familiar, even though I'd never seen her before? And why did the sight of her picture shake something deep inside me?
I gripped the edge of a table for balance as I took a shaky breath, hoping to push through the fog clouding my thoughts. "No, I...I'm fine," I managed to say, but Scarlet's face remained tight with concern.