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I wake up choking.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTXKSr58uk
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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.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40c2N3eecL
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But there’s no fire now.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAxlJ0w1Qp
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Just sunlight.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEV99wv1MG
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYMQmWWybX
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I sit up fast. My head spins.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1mgrLvJRBE
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpxfAbKbR9o
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LPWXHWcaU
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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.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkC1gre7A50
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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?”180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQ0Er5nN4a
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhjNgag7jz
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQWeQHl7ha
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8C8pMdy07W
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcH0HIRYywX
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeJlPo5IMA
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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.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJzYj03UBF
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡns4LVbi03f
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡehFzBe8gtc
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxjNxrSLEvP
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV82cGgbUU5
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That boy.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSKecheQ51
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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.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqxMDegRrg8
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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?”180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPMcgqDaLd
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv4Cl6b1kmw
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡijplUFmdPN
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.180Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqR56jjWjP
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