{Elira}
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"Sorry to disappoint," I murmured, lifting my hands in a gentle shrug. "But yeah, I was reading a particular yearbook that day. And today, I went back to finish up… only to find it was gone."
The room fell quiet for a beat.
Cambria straightened slightly. "That's strange. Are you sure it wasn't just moved?"
"I checked. The librarian—I mean… Professor Rennon looked into the logs. Nothing. No one signed it out."
Tamryn frowned. "No item is allowed out of the Archive Room without being logged. That's like… standard rule."
"Exactly," I said, exhaling deeply. "But it's not there anymore."
Nari sat up. "Maybe it's a mistake. Or someone took it out and forgot to log it? It'll show up again."
I nodded slowly, but the truth lodged like a stone in my chest. Their reactions made sense—they didn't know what that yearbook meant to me. They didn't know the weight it carried or the secrets it might've held about my mother.
