Chapter 45 The Impossible Offer

• "What do you mean, surrender myself completely?"
• Her own voice sounded so foreign to her ears, as though it wasn't herself speaking, but someone working hard to maintain sanity amid a situation so impossible to process with ordinary reason.
• She stared closely at Wilhelmina's old face, trying to find traces of lies or deception there, but what she found was only a calmness so terrifying, an absolute conviction from someone who had long planned every detail of this moment.