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Two nights after Kim found the letter—and after Seline’s cryptic warning—she returned to the wall again, this time unable to stop herself. The silence was addictive. Dangerous, even. She hadn’t told anyone, not even her closest friend Shiko. Especially not Shiko.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOxKCInzpl
The blue paper clip was gone now.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGepAUZZjyA
In its place, tucked neatly in the bougainvillea’s twisted stems, was something new.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Pemspg6Xj
A strip of navy-blue school tie fabric, knotted once in the middle. Tied tightly. Left deliberately?251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDPIZoawBU
Her breath caught. It hadn’t rained. No wind could have blown it there.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSHJK7Jd88
She saw it.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpSmbspe58
She answered.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvZ7Sxvzuj
But who?251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TCoF5xJeh
Kim hadn’t meant to stay out so late. Again.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjKJc1vSyb
But the tie—the knotted strip of blue—had her trapped in thought. She sat half-hidden behind the bougainvillea wall, hugging her knees to her chest, watching the stars blink through a thin curtain of cloud. The school was unusually quiet.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSU83RvZOg
Too quiet.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHKJmYl7Cs
Suddenly, Footsteps. More than one. Running. Fast—soft, quick, like running feet hitting the red dirt behind the classroom block. Then another.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGkgJtbTV0V
Fast, urgent, cutting through the damp evening like blades.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNo8mODNP1
She turned her head sharply.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMlB07BGfl
From inside the compound.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpoNuQ5PEhq
Closer.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNKmyLbpxBR
Kim ducked instinctively as two figures sprinted past, barely ten meters away. Shadows, tall and lean, moving with practiced urgency. Not girls. Not the way they ran. The cut of their silhouettes. One had short-cropped hair, the other a limping gait.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvRVFFgJnz5
They were boys.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2g1Nv9D8L
And they were running away—from the direction of her dormitory.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlAHEQx37JX
Her mouth went dry. They didn’t see her. Didn’t stop.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkJrn4kTRv
She crouched lower as they reached the wall. One of them boosted the other up effortlessly, then scrambled up behind him in a way that spoke of practice, of routine. They had done this before. She watched the top of the wall as the shadows passed— shapes, tall, swift-moving. Then gone.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJt1Z43FnHC
Then—voices. Behind them.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WczlLgT8b
Kim strained to listen. At first, all she heard was the rustling of leaves. But then came the unmistakable swish of skirts.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BsMEbbyMG
Three figures stepped into view from the same direction the boys had come.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZPgvkFsTG
They were wearing girls' school uniforms—blue skirts, white blouses. One of them had a hood up, shadowing her face. The others didn’t speak, just turned their heads slowly, scanning the darkness like wolves in the dark.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8i6nQDnFXD
Kim’s blood ran cold. Were they prefects? No.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56GlSDWpNC
No prefect moved like that. With such silence. Such purpose.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9f6Uqk0vV
The tallest of them bent near the wall, picked something up—the torn shred of tie fabric—and held it to her nose. As if scent would tell her what sight could not then tossed back on the ground.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgjF83I4n89
Kim didn’t breathe. The girl in the hood turned suddenly, eyes locking straight toward where Kim crouched in the bush.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHntUBnu8WM
The night seemed to collapse inward.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9NDiCPHsD
But they didn’t approach. Didn’t say a word.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNDZ9F288Z
Then they turned and walked away.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBSRxZK5md
Back into the dark.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XxEifeZqz
Kim stayed there for what felt like hours, barely breathing. The wind rustled through the bougainvillea, brushing the tie gently against the stone.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueuEqzM1dk
The wall had cracked. Not broken, but cracked.251Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevFERo8iM0
Something had changed. And tomorrow, someone would know and she had seen it.
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