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###Chapter 431 JANICE I had done this eleven times before Lumina. Eleven threads unraveled and rewoven, eleven people sent back to fix a moment that broke them, eleven debts collected when the balance came due. I remembered each one, though most people would think a thing like me couldn't remember anything at all—that I was just a force, a rule, a law of nature wearing a woman's shape. They were wrong. I remembered everything. That was the curse of what I was. I never got to forget. Lumina thought I was cruel. I understood why. From where she stood, cruelty and inevitability probably looked the same. But I wasn't cruel. I was constrained. Let me explain it the way I wished I could have explained it to her, if there had been time, if the rules had allowed for more than the little I'd already bent. The world does not like being changed. This is the first thing I learned, centuries ago, when I still had a name that wasn't Janice and a life that wasn't this one. Time is not a river, no mat