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I wake up choking.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0TdAe3Aiw
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb8tG92OV6R
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But there’s no fire now.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfP08Ct1lU
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Just sunlight.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSzXIdKM5uw
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXZB4XhPRt
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I sit up fast. My head spins.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVxgUmIN9k
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwdBtzqeal
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTp8HM8bOF
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhQojbxgsN
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1PaI4MZTIY
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SpA3sJEqM
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLnpZkcBTdr
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9hLLWLfgf
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIxSGYAzIr
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdE8RWNkkQ
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeg6BWN88I1
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7XOKishj4i
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLyO5xEqX7z
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4acYsbd7bY
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRZud4q3o7
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That boy.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriT4AddNLk
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrQ7ZhP4PC
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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.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3tp4AXAf8
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lbCTaq1jX
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWoxKweoq5L
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.181Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JlntCx120
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