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The delivery room. 1:15 AM. I was born. In a few minutes, a nurse named Fiona Green would walk through that door to steal me away and swap me with another family's baby. In my previous life, she succeeded. I spent twenty years in squalor before uncovering the truth and returning to claim my identity, only for the impostor to send me back to the underworld with a cup of poisoned water. This time was different. I had served a decade in purgatory, scraping together every redemption point I could, to buy my way back to the living world. I stared at the clock on the wall, counting down. One hour and forty-five minutes until Fiona made her move.