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I wake up choking.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUjb3MmLzc
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My lungs burn like I’ve been breathing smoke all night. Sweat sticks to my skin, the sheets tangled around me like ropes. For one second, I almost expect to see fire again — those flames crawling up the palace walls, that boy’s cold blue eyes staring through them.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9QOgVksjTY
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But there’s no fire now.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXvambM2bP
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Just sunlight.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLHaow6yF5Z
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA8Hczp0mqC
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I sit up fast. My head spins.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsUscbZv0X
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2qYIXEnV7
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVetu8p6rUZ
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The image hits me so hard I almost gag — her body on the floor, the nobles screaming, his hand, the knife. And then… me, blurting out something insane just to save him.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNIcTwOcrJ
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I drag my knees up to my chest and bury my face in them. “What the hell did I just do?”154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkZ2AE2U8J
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9DOLcUFbV
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELz8kzrfId
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvBS3RBH1GA
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6zFSsDeJc
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4iZKjGmrr
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I press a hand to my forehead, trying to breathe. The air’s too heavy, like the whole room’s watching me.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHXWDpMzWp
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNjAeX570x
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeBJBf1T3FO
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uNa5pdQUP
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkg4P5UX2c
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That boy.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIfuUlGxWUU
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I can still see his face — that blank calm, the blue in his eyes when he looked at me like he’d seen me before.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTXrFa4kGa8
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I grip the blanket tighter. “Who even are you?” I mutter, voice shaking. “And why do I feel like… I know you?”154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIFLVwWwSk
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYt0ZyTjtS0
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKC2uniEzq
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.154Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbES356guR0
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