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00:00She gave me her face. I gave her revenge.
00:03After my assassination failed, I ducked into a ruined chapel.
00:06I never expected to find a violated noble girl dying inside.
00:09Our eyes met. We both froze.
00:11We had the exact same face.
00:13She said she was the Earl's daughter.
00:15Her stepmother tricked her out of the manor,
00:17lying her father was gravely ill at the northern border.
00:20Instead, she was taken here where the stepmother had paid rogues to rape her, then poison her.
00:24She reached out her hand.
00:26Don't look at me that way. I don't know how to save people.
00:30I'm an assassin, knowing only how to kill.
00:33Besides, I'm being hunted myself.
00:36I'm not asking you to save me.
00:38I'm about to die.
00:40I'll give you my identity to help you hide from your pursuers.
00:45Just avenge me.
00:47Please.
00:49I needed a new identity.
00:51The Count's daughter was safe enough.
00:54Fine.
00:56I promise.
00:57I looked down at her limp hand.
00:59She died with resentment and pleading in her eyes.
01:03Considerate payment for your face.
01:05Footsteps in front of the child.
01:07Two rogues.
01:08Stinking of wine.
01:10Damn, that noble bitch was really something.
01:13Shame about the poison.
01:15Could have gone another few rounds.
01:17Their filthy words died the moment they found me and saw my face.
01:23Twins?
01:24Twins?
01:25No.
01:27T-W-I-N-S.
01:29Tonight, writing it never spares.
01:32New one for us.
01:33Lucky, lucky day.
01:35Me first.
01:36I call dibs.
01:38First is fine by me.
01:39First time I've ever felt slow.
01:43Hell!
01:43Hell's been waiting.
01:45Two rogues on the ground.
01:47Eyes bulging.
01:48Bodies flopping like dying fish.
01:50Broken throat.
01:51No air.
01:52They'll feel every second of it before they go.
01:55Filthy villains don't die easy.
01:57I searched their pockets.
01:59Found a letter with black seal.
02:01It was the Earl's wolf crest.
02:02Sloppy.
02:03Criminals don't leave evidence this obvious.
02:05Either my new stepmother is an idiot, or someone wants her to look like one.
02:09Either way.
02:10She lured Cecilia here.
02:12She doesn't get to walk away.
02:13I buried Cecilia in the yard.
02:15A stone from the altar to mark the grave.
02:17Then I dragged the rogues' bodies in front of it and set them on fire.
02:20I used my kit to become her.
02:22Needles, powder, a fake mole by the eyebrow.
02:25An hour later, I looked into a puddle and saw Cecilia Rosenthal staring back.
02:30If it's just the snake pair stepmother and stepsister,
02:32simple.
02:33I'll wear your face, smash their scheme, then smash them.
02:37If there's a vulture above those snakes,
02:39I'll use the snakes as bait.
02:41Then I'll kill them all.
02:43Two feet, the postmanters, a crowd coming to catch a four.
02:47Good.
02:47They're here.
02:48Watch closely.
02:49Your name is going to become their tombstone.
02:52Cecilia, you have an assassin's avenging word.
02:56A woman in a dark green cloak,
02:58scanning the ground like a crow looking for carrion.
03:03What are you doing here?
03:05I smiled.
03:06Assassin waits for the right moment.
03:08Sis, why don't you answer, Mother?
03:11Is it true you ran off with someone?
03:13Didn't Mother tell me Father was gravely ill?
03:16Ask me to come quickly?
03:17I never...
03:18So someone used Mother's name to lure me here.
03:21And Mother just happened to show up with so many people?
03:24I received a tip.
03:25That Rosenstein's daughter was misbehaving.
03:27Running off with a man.
03:30Misbehaving?
03:31So Mother's saying Cecilia did this to herself?
03:33Sis, why are you speaking so strangely?
03:35Were you hurt?
03:36Tell us, we'll help you.
03:37I wasn't hurt.
03:38But someone's trying to hurt me right now.
03:39I tell you, will you help me?
03:40Sister, I understand.
03:42Your late mother's family fell.
03:44You are desperate to keep your engagement with Edmund.
03:46But you can't lie because of that.
03:47If bad things happen, shouldn't the ones who hurt you face justice?
03:50You want justice for your sister?
03:53Of course I...
03:57That's the interest.
03:59For your sister Cecilia.
04:02Edmund's eyes went cold.
04:04He set Lena down and turned to me.
04:06You've lost your mind.
04:07Get on your knees and apologize.
04:08Or our engagement is off.
04:09Off?
04:10You must have been dreaming of it for years.
04:12But you never dared.
04:14You grasped the engagement for your fiancé's mother.
04:16Now her house has fallen so you want to dump it?
04:19You are insane.
04:20Today, you need be taught a lesson.
04:22I knew the two rogues and their testimony.
04:24What they did to you.
04:26Kneel down if you don't want your slut act spreading across the kingdom.
04:29Then go ahead.
04:30Tell everyone.
04:31Your fiancé violated by rogues.
04:34But people will wonder.
04:35How did the fiancé get the evidence so fast?
04:38Were you there?
04:40Or were the rogals yours to begin with?
04:42Cecilia!
04:43How dare you!
04:44Sister, please just apologize.
04:47I have witnesses.
04:48The two rogues are concrete evidence.
04:51It's too late for your apologies.
04:54Witnesses?
04:55Already turned to ashes.
04:56Evidence?
04:57Talk to their ghosts.
04:58Then you do it.
05:00Tell the whole werewolf kingdom instead of yapping like a dog here.
05:10A wolf controls his shift.
05:12What can't control itself is a dog in heat.
05:21Don't worry.
05:22Wolf or dog, Cecilia is marrying you.
05:25Let the game begin.
05:27For scum like this, an assassin never minds killing slope.
05:31Edmund wrote off.
05:32Edmund wrote off.
05:32Humiliated.
05:33Furious.
05:34Good disgrace!
05:36We're returning home right now before you ruin what's left of our Rosenton family.
05:40Sister, you shouldn't be so stubborn after you humiliated our family.
05:43I looked at them.
05:44Lena's practiced tears.
05:46Magda's clenched jaw.
05:47You want to talk about family name?
05:50With Cecilia?
05:55How dare you!
05:57Disgrace and humiliation?
05:59Ask yourselves who arranged this call.
06:02Magda stumbled back.
06:04Hand on her cheek.
06:04Then rage replaced it.
06:06You've forgotten how to behave.
06:09Wait until we're home.
06:11Madam Greta will grind you back into shape.
06:13The name fell like a stone.
06:15Servants paled.
06:16The guards looked away.
06:17Sister, just apologize.
06:20You remember Madam Greta's methods, don't you?
06:23I didn't have Cecilia's memory.
06:25But I saw Cecilia's hands when she reached for me.
06:27The old scars all over her body.
06:29And I could guess by the snake pierce missing.
06:32Madam Greta?
06:33I look forward to meeting her.
06:35I smiled.
06:37Three days later, I arrived at Rosenbaum Manor, Capital City.
06:41Madam Greta waited at the hall.
06:42Old, dried up, hawk nose.
06:44She pulled out a teacup, dropped it.
06:47Shards scattered across the floor.
06:48Kneel.
06:49One hour.
06:50We'll start easy.
06:52What if I refuse?
06:54You've become rebellious.
06:55The Countess warned me, so I invited your late mother to teach you.
06:59You behave.
07:01This stays safe.
07:02You don't?
07:03Your late mother, Pigfield.
07:08I knelt.
07:09I knelt.
07:09Not really.
07:10Crouched.
07:11Ready.
07:11She didn't notice the difference.
07:13Magda smiled and satisfied.
07:15She pulled Lena toward the door.
07:17Madam Greta, help her revisit her old lessons.
07:21Tonight.
07:21Midnight.
07:22Midnight.
07:23My door opened.
07:24Greta stood in the doorway.
07:25Needle kit in one hand, a pair of pliers in the other.
07:28Get up.
07:29Tonight's lesson, just like before.
07:32She walked closer.
07:33Laid out her tools on the floor.
07:34Silver needles, bone hooks, a metal rod with a framing in it.
07:38Are you afraid?
07:39I am terrified.
07:42I am terrified.
07:43You.
07:44You.
07:45Terrified my skills had gone rusty.
07:50Still as good as ever.
07:52The days after Greta disappeared were quiet.
07:56Magda sent replacements.
07:58A stern woman with a cane.
07:59I threw her out through the door.
08:01A fat man who liked to scream.
08:03Over the bottle.
08:04And then take me.
08:05After the third, they stopped coming.
08:07News spread.
08:08Cecilia went crazy.
08:10Good.
08:10Let them talk.
08:11Fear is quieter than respect.
08:13Leaving me space alone for Cecilia's diary.
08:15The leather was worn.
08:16The pages thin from rereading.
08:21Page after page.
08:23Pain after pain.
08:24And yet.
08:28I closed the diary.
08:30She thought marrying Edmund would be her escape.
08:32She didn't know Edmund was the one tightening the snare.
08:35Edmund's messenger arrived at New York.
08:38Lord Edmund requests the honor of Lady Cecilia's presence at House Reign for the wedding ceremony.
08:42By tradition, Lady Lena shall accompany her.
08:43Accompany?
08:44They're intending Lena to replace her.
08:46The Duke's heir never wanted Cecilia.
08:47By the time the ceremony ends, Lena will fake the bride and be the real duchess.
08:50I listened.
08:51Then I smiled.
08:52Fake?
08:53They didn't know.
08:53Cecilia's fake.
08:55But fake Cecilia's revenge?
08:56That's real.
08:58The wedding day approaching.
08:59The manor buzzed with preparation.
09:01But not for me.
09:02Not for Cecilia.
09:04Silks and jewels for Lena.
09:05Fittings.
09:06Rehearsals.
09:07Servants tripping over themselves to please.
09:09Lena arrived at my door three days before the departure.
09:12Sister.
09:13What's not yours will not be yours.
09:15Oh really?
09:17You know, even if you marry Edmund, you'll be nothing but a vase on the table.
09:21I smiled.
09:22Maybe.
09:24But someone won't even make it to the table.
09:26Her face twisted.
09:31We'll see.
09:35We'll see.
09:36The departure day, the house rain sent carriages for the brides.
09:39Guards.
09:39Banners with the rain wolf.
09:41Edmund sat on his horse at the front.
09:43He didn't look at me.
09:44Didn't even glance.
09:45His eyes found Lena.
09:47Lingered.
09:48I climbed into my carriage, alone, good, easier to watch.
09:52The carriage stopped.
09:54I stepped down.
09:55Edmund was already there.
09:56At the gate, his hand out, not to me, to Lena.
09:59She took it.
10:00See?
10:01I stood alone.
10:02No hand, no welcome, just stairs from the servant.
10:05I reached into my sleeve.
10:07Cold metal.
10:08Familiar weight.
10:09My dagger.
10:10I walked through the rain's gate, alone and forgotten.
10:14Cecilia, watch.
10:15Where you didn't make it for your hope, I faked it here for your vengeance.
10:19Edmund took Lena to her room.
10:21Mine stayed empty.
10:22So came the chance to map the running of the estate.
10:25I found the steward's office in the evening.
10:27The two rogues we arranged are missing.
10:29Useless Magda.
10:31After all the help I gave her, she still failed to shake Cecilia off.
10:34The rogues.
10:34The false letter.
10:36The evidence pointing to Magda.
10:37I arranged all of these.
10:39But that Cecilia escaped.
10:40There it was.
10:41The vulture above the snakes.
10:43Cecilia's death wasn't just Magda's trap.
10:45It was his scheme.
10:46I walked back to my room.
10:48The castle slept, but I couldn't.
10:50Midnight, I sneaked back Rosenthalman.
10:52I stood over Magda's bed.
10:54Her eyes opened.
10:55She screamed.
10:56My hand covered her mouth.
10:58Her eyes widened.
10:59Recognition.
11:00No, you're not.
11:02I'm not Cecilia.
11:04I am the one Cecilia said.
11:06My fingers found the back of her neck.
11:08One press.
11:09You'll never walk again.
11:10Never speak again.
11:12Just lie here.
11:14And think about what you did.
11:16I pulled back.
11:18For Cecilia.
11:21Countess Magda collapsed.
11:23Her analysis.
11:24The physicians don't know why.
11:25I sipped my tea.
11:26News arrived at noon the next day.
11:28Good.
11:29Nina burst into my room that afternoon.
11:32Red-eyed.
11:33Wild.
11:33She swept my teacup off the table.
11:36My mother can't move.
11:38Can't speak.
11:39She's a vegetable.
11:41I looked at the shattered cup.
11:42That was my favorite tea set.
11:44You monster.
11:45Mother's dying and you're enjoying tea?
11:48Would you prefer I throw a celebration?
11:50Someone!
11:51Anyone!
11:51Servants rushed in.
11:52One gold coin for each slap at her face.
11:55One gold coin for each slap.
11:58Let them come.
11:59The servants exchanged glances.
12:01A big man stepped forward first.
12:03Thick arms.
12:04Thick skull.
12:06That's it.
12:07Slap her.
12:08He raised his hand.
12:10I moved faster.
12:11Gold hairpin.
12:12Through his palm.
12:13Crack.
12:14The scream echoed through Rain Keep.
12:16I positioned the bloodstained hairpin against Lena's face.
12:19Lena screamed.
12:21No one else stepped forward.
12:22Edmund arrived within minutes.
12:24What happened?
12:25She attacked for no reason.
12:27Cecilia.
12:29House arrest.
12:30I walked to my room.
12:31Servants rumored.
12:32She's jealous.
12:33Tried to ruin Lena's face.
12:35Mad with envy.
12:36Amid the rumors came one more interesting.
12:38News from the north.
12:39Earl Eric Rosenthal.
12:41Dead.
12:42Stroke.
12:42At the scene, a kept maid was at his bed.
12:45I read the message.
12:46I had no grief in Cecilia's boots for a father who turned away
12:49when the stepmother did whatever she wanted.
12:51The father alive didn't do any help for Cecilia.
12:54But at least his death did.
12:56The shameful news killed Magda.
12:58Rage did the rest.
12:59Even an assassin takes second place to killing news like that.
13:03Now I am to take the first place.
13:04Assassination target.
13:06Edmund, you wait.
13:08Lena came to my room the next morning.
13:10Black morning gown, white lace, red eyes.
13:12She looked almost pitiful.
13:14You think you've won?
13:17Father is dead.
13:19And my mother is dead.
13:23And you just sit there!
13:25I poured another cup of tea.
13:27Wait until I'm pregnant.
13:29Edmund will make me his mate.
13:31I'll replace you.
13:33Completely.
13:34I looked at her.
13:36Good luck with that.
13:38But you'd better watch your Edmund closely.
13:41She didn't understand.
13:42But she would understand soon.
13:44That evening, I sneaked into Edmund's study.
13:47I pulled the small vial from my sleeve.
13:49A few drops.
13:50Colorless.
13:52Tasteless.
13:53Not poison.
13:54Slow.
13:55Invisible.
13:56Irreversible.
13:57That night, Lena went to the Lily Tavern looking for Edmund.
14:01She found him.
14:01In a private room with three men entangled.
14:05Her scream shattered the night.
14:09The Lily Tavern.
14:11Lina's scream still echoed in my memory.
14:13I didn't need to stay there.
14:15The rumors told the rest.
14:16She burst into the private chamber.
14:18The Duke's heir.
14:19On his knees, three men, maybe four.
14:22By noon, all of Capital Town knew.
14:25The Duke's heir reduced to a tavern joke.
14:27Edmund returned to Rainkeep at dawn.
14:29Red-eyed, humiliated, furious.
14:32Lina followed, crying, begging.
14:34He turned on her.
14:35Crap.
14:36His hand crossed her face.
14:38This is your fault.
14:39You shouldn't have come.
14:40She fell.
14:41Didn't get up.
14:42He dragged her to the woodshed himself.
14:43Locked the door.
14:44Don't let her out.
14:46Edmund locked himself in his study.
14:48Drank, broke things.
14:49Lina stayed in the woodshed.
14:51No food, no water.
14:53Just the dark and her thoughts.
14:55I paid her the last visit.
14:56You are here to mock me?
14:57No way.
14:58I am not like Cecilia.
14:59I am not weak.
15:00Her thoughts were disorganized, unable to recognize Cecilia's face.
15:05Your father died during messing with a maid.
15:07Your mother died of her father's shameful death and dreaming man messing not even a maid.
15:12Who is more pitiful, you or Cecilia?
15:14Next day, a servant knocked on my door.
15:16My lady!
15:18Lady Lina!
15:19She hung herself with a rope!
15:21I looked out the window.
15:23The sun was rising.
15:24Red, like blood.
15:26The snakes died.
15:27Not enough.
15:28Edmund was still alive.
15:30The vulture above the snakes.
15:31The one who set the trap.
15:33An assassin never forgets who really deserves to die.
15:37Lina's body was buried before me.
15:39No ceremony.
15:40No tears.
15:41Just a hole in the yard and a stone marker.
15:43Edmund didn't attend.
15:44He was in his study.
15:45She ruined me.
15:47That stupid bitch.
15:50Ruin my fame!
15:52I took over the estate.
15:53The steward reported to me now.
15:55The servants answered to me.
15:56Lady Cecilia had never been so useful.
15:58I signed the papers, paid the bills, managed the guards.
16:01No one questioned me.
16:02They were too busy whispering about Edmund.
16:04He never leaves his room.
16:07Those men come every night.
16:10Have you heard the noises?
16:11I sipped my tea.
16:13Good.
16:13Let them talk.
16:14Every whisper was another nail in his coffin.
16:17A month passed.
16:18Edmund was a ghost now.
16:20Pale, thin, hollow-eyed.
16:22He didn't attend meetings.
16:23Didn't see visitors.
16:25Didn't even look out the window.
16:27Just drank.
16:28And messing with the men.
16:29Always the men.
16:32I visited him once.
16:34The room stank of wine and worse.
16:36He lay on the floor.
16:38Shirtless.
16:39Surrounded by empty bottles.
16:40His eyes found me.
16:42More wine.
16:43Of course, my lord.
16:46I closed the door behind me.
16:48Let him rot.
16:49Then the gates opened.
16:50Horses, guards, banners with the rain wolf.
16:53Duke Marcus Reign.
16:54He had returned from Greyfist.
16:56I watched from my window as he dismounted.
16:58His face was stone.
16:59His eyes cold.
17:00He had heard the rumors of his son.
17:02He had come to see for himself.
17:06Marcus went straight to Edmund's chambers.
17:08I followed at a distance.
17:10The door opened.
17:10Silence.
17:11Then he turned to me.
17:13Cecilia Rosensperl.
17:14Duke, what have you done to my son?
17:17His voice echoed through the hall.
17:19I stepped forward.
17:20I've done nothing, my lord.
17:22Edmund did this himself.
17:23Marcus turned.
17:24His eyes burned into mine, looking for lies.
17:27He wouldn't find any because I hadn't lied.
17:29I just helped him along.
17:31Wine, men, isolation.
17:33All his choice.
17:34I just made sure the bottles were full and the company willing.
17:37An assassin doesn't always need a plague.
17:40Sometimes, a bottle is enough.
17:43I will find out who did this.
17:46I watched him go.
17:48Good luck.
17:49An assassin's work is invisible, especially when the victim kills himself.
17:54Marcus Raines spent three days in the keep.
17:56Three days of questioning.
17:58Threats.
17:58Demands.
17:58Who supplied the wine?
18:00Who brought those men?
18:02Who knew?
18:03The servants trembled.
18:05The steward stammered.
18:06No one pointed at me.
18:07Why would they?
18:09I did it, but all at Edmund's demands.
18:11Marcus searched for a conspiracy.
18:13He found nothing.
18:14On the fourth day, Edmund died.
18:16In his bed, surrounded by empty bottles, as well as shirtless men.
18:21The physician said his heart gave out from excessive indulgence.
18:24Marcus stood over the body.
18:26His face was stone, but his hands trembled.
18:29Kill them.
18:29All of them.
18:30Every man who touched my son.
18:32Then Marcus announced it.
18:33My son.
18:34Sudden malality.
18:35A fever took him.
18:38No one believed it.
18:39No one said otherwise.
18:40Marcus came to my room that evening.
18:42You are his widow.
18:43This house needs an heir.
18:44His eyes were red.
18:45His voice was hoarse.
18:47I have chosen a boy.
18:48Colin.
18:48Five years old.
18:49Distant kin.
18:50He will be your son.
18:51As you wish, my lord.
18:52Colin arrived the next day.
18:53A small boy.
18:54Brown hair.
18:55Big eyes.
18:56He clung to his nurse's hand.
18:58Scared of the castle.
18:59Scared of me.
19:00I crouched down.
19:01Hello, Colin.
19:02He stared.
19:03I won't bite.
19:04He didn't smile.
19:05But he stopped shaking.
19:06Marcus left for Greyfist at dawn.
19:08His horse galloped through the gates.
19:10He didn't look back.
19:11The keep was mine now.
19:13No Edmund.
19:13No Lena.
19:14No Magda.
19:15Just me.
19:15And a five-year-old boy who needed a mother.
19:17I walked to my room.
19:19Sat on the bed.
19:20For the first time in months, I breathed.
19:22Then I heard it.
19:24Footsteps outside my door.
19:25Not servants.
19:26Not guards.
19:27Professionals.
19:28My hand reached for my dagger.
19:30They are coming for me.
19:31For Elena.
19:32Five crown agents.
19:34They came through my door at midnight.
19:36They didn't come out.
19:37First one.
19:38Dagger under the ribs.
19:39He dropped without a sound.
19:41Second one.
19:42Silver needle through the eye.
19:43He choked on his own blood.
19:45Third one.
19:46I used his own sword.
19:48Across his throat.
19:49Fourth one.
19:50Crack.
19:51Neck twisted.
19:52The fifth one tried to run.
19:53I intentionally let him slip by at his last moments with the evidence letter I faked.
19:58When his body was found, the letter I planted would say Edmund Raine was a traitor.
20:03And the agents died finding out the truth.
20:07Three days later, the capital buzzed with rumors.
20:10The duke's heir.
20:12The duke's heir.
20:12A traitor.
20:13Crown agents killed in his own keep.
20:15The king himself has seen the evidence.
20:17I sipped my tea.
20:18Good.
20:19Dead men tell no tales, but their bodies tell whatever stories I want.
20:24I thought it was over.
20:26I was wrong.
20:27Three days later, I heard a servant's whisper in the kitchen.
20:31Someone's been asking about Lady Cecilia.
20:33In the city, asking questions, I put down my cup.
20:39Three days of traces.
20:42The trail led to an old manor on the edge of the capital.
20:45Lady Alera's house.
20:47Cecilia's late mother's best friend.
20:50Midnight.
20:50I slipped through her window.
20:52My hand covered her mouth.
20:53Her eyes snapped open.
20:56Shh.
20:57She recognized my face.
20:59Terror in her eyes.
21:00She knew who I was, or thought she did.
21:02Cecilia.
21:03The girl who came back from the trap they once set.
21:07Tell me who else was involved in Magda's plan at the chapel.
21:10Her eyes darted, looking for escape.
21:12There was none.
21:13She talked.
21:13Seven names.
21:14Seven people who knew, who helped, who watched Cecilia die.
21:18Seven more names.
21:19The list grows.
21:24She thought I'd leave.
21:26I did.
21:26Only after my kill.
21:28One crack.
21:29Neck twisted.
21:29Lady Alera joined her friends in the dark.
21:35Three months, seven deaths, no connections.
21:38The first, a noble woman at her own banquet.
21:41She raised her glass.
21:42I was behind her.
21:44One push.
21:45The railing gave way.
21:45She fell.
21:46A knight on patrol.
21:47A silver needle from the trees.
21:49A stray.
21:51His horse came back alone.
21:52The third, a merchant who liked to drink on cliffs.
21:55A little something in his wine.
21:57He stumbled.
21:59The waves took him.
22:00The fourth, a carriage accident.
22:02The fifth, a fireplace explosion.
22:04The sixth, a horse that reared.
22:06The seventh, a bath that was too hot.
22:08I returned to Rain Keep three months later.
22:10Mother!
22:11Someone came from the palace!
22:13I looked at the black carriage at my gates.
22:18Her majesty wishes to speak with you.
22:20Lady Sybil, the queen's handmaiden.
22:23Forty years.
22:23Blank face.
22:24A voice that read names from a grave.
22:26Her majesty wishes to speak with you.
22:28She appreciates a widow who can manage the family estate well.
22:31I didn't believe her.
22:32The queen was related to the lord treasurer.
22:35The lord treasurer I had assassinated.
22:37But I am now Cecilia.
22:39I had to answer her summons.
22:41The palace was gloriously bright.
22:42I preferred the dark.
22:44The queen sat on her throne.
22:45A smile that didn't reach her eyes.
22:49Leave us.
22:50The servants filed out.
22:52The doors closed.
22:54She looked at me.
22:57You are not Cecilia Rosenthal.
23:02You are not Cecilia Rosenthal.
23:03You are not Cecilia Rosenthal.
23:03You are not Cecilia Rosenthal.
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