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I wake up choking.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMUFiOAOrA
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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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡicqiMk3kl9
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But there’s no fire now.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmYTooeGEE
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Just sunlight.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp8eAm4oFQu
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit26z9qNC4
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I sit up fast. My head spins.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeJudzdcKb
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Gnb924lGQ
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1URAQJb4d
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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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSteskoCk8
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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?”164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjepRi1rKEf
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaMK2eioQ7
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEHyv8yU5lo
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVBgeR87wl
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbb42P9kNZ
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bei1q45p1
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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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQhQz2pavW
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZcN28tsTr
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2oBTQEsP2
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclRkScW1A5
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlupaY4J1uW
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That boy.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKG6YHmL2Ld
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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.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb7rCl3Aewu
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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?”164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASOjBp37iH
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX0kKREZD7o
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQFDcWNScP
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.164Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvTOnagPTF
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