Nora Lowell's reappearance truly stunned Paige Summers.
She felt this woman was like a maggot burrowing into bone—inescapable, no matter where she went.
Back in Norgate, Nora Lowell had fallen into Shawn Monroe's hands. Paige had thought she would die, but instead, she had become a Zombie capable of speech, thought, and even using a superpower. When the Central Army breached Norgate, Nora Lowell vanished. Although she hadn't died, Paige had thought she would never see her again.
Who would have thought? Paige came to Southreach, thousands of kilometers away from the north, and yet Nora Lowell had appeared again!
For a moment, all the rules from the novel echoed in Paige's mind: the protagonist's halo, her invincibility, her ability to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat even in the most hopeless situations. She flipped a dagger into her hand and pressed it to Nora Lowell's neck, thinking only of killing her right then and there to eliminate this threat for good.
