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When I went to Velmora for my studies, I found out that my sponsored companion, Yara Scott, whom my dad arranged for me, had been using my name and pretending to be me the whole time. She kept swiping my clothes and jewelry. She'd dress up as me and show up at award events, pretending to be me. She even told everyone I was the broke sponsored companion. I thought my dad would have my back, but he just ignored everything and did nothing. Cornered by Velmora street punks in a dark alley, I finally heard the bomb drop: Yara was my dad's illegitimate daughter. Yara smirked and said, "You know why I'm telling you all this, Sylvia Ludwing? Because you're never going back." After I died, my spirit drifted after Yara as she returned to Clusia. I watched Yara and her mother wrench our front door open and hurl my mom onto the street. Devastated by the loss of her daughter and her cheating husband, my mom died in a car crash. Yara had fully stepped into the role of the Ludwig family heiress. She wasn't pretending anymore; she was living my life for real. The so-called "companion" was just a trap they had plotted from the start. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on the very day Yara and I first arrived in Velmora.