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I wake up choking.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCc4mGtDLP
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJuqlUKyLv
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But there’s no fire now.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZ5x10VOW2
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Just sunlight.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYg7x5WYOz
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1wlH8W70Q
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I sit up fast. My head spins.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NdDYR2nYO
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0UjiCqLa5n
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXhJ4CBUta
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9BjsQzKbB
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiepqp8VSZn
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWus7ucscp
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvVUCufthtD
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfcy4UM9s5
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA7YRn395cg
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRs4SBUc9rU
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzntHZTc2Xh
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeLhhC02XKl
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPJWfEzF4r
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFvCV8iPuL
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGADVYlPTyi
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That boy.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmghqeq4kg
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dGGtFoS4I
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5pXUGjVdUS
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzV7KPlVUqn
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2jFHRL3LsL
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrlnsVN6Cak
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