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... r a beat too long.
Daisy heard it in the silence, the careful breath, the pause that meant a mother remembering her child was not a child anymore.
Daisy and Joji were both twenty one, and that changed what a threshold meant.
Then came the knock, gentle as a plea.
"Daisy. May I enter?"
"Come in," Daisy said, her voice worn thin.
The door opened and the duchess slipped inside with the healers at her back.
They did not waste time on courtesies ...
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