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I wake up choking.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ztTMYC0Hk
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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.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcLzeSqGKu
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But there’s no fire now.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0J3KiSrgZx
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Just sunlight.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9BsgDb9hD
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1rKFje9Ci
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I sit up fast. My head spins.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhiRDag7fxB
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgn0NjfsC0
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDU5vhwx0f9
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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.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BoGeYnxpN
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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?”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4DwwHH5e3
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGqXJWuT6x
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9uIEbSDvD
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxwfHCXAtU
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltp1kmmOM9
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWANUq99zbh
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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.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFoaLeHx0j
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznbTrTcA5H
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZLbsXePiT
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLI93aDjQU
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0op0Yed88I
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That boy.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ74gGLQQKSa
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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.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaEnL0s2Yk
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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?”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLMi744Vs72
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQPUXWEwWr
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAD6KOPQo12
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1v5WrRNxy8
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