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... s glinting like polished obsidian, the warmth from moments ago draining away as if a veil had lifted—or fallen.
The room felt colder, the sunlight through the window now sharp and unforgiving, casting long shadows across the bed where the forgotten book lay abandoned.
"How did you know?" she asked, her voice low—a quiet murmur stripped of the fragility that had once clung to Lila’s words.
Now it was steady.
Probing.
Like a predator testing the air before t ...
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