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I wake up choking.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4ggDrvJVH
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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.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEEf7R8YBs
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But there’s no fire now.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMR8Nkprd8U
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Just sunlight.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVK0OT10FNH
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGH7CSjOuRM
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I sit up fast. My head spins.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuYYxE8hJ2
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDruleyPhx
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkDhJOfhG5
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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.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDqKPNqg4t
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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?”48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHacLUAIPA8
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcSZ1a2nwb
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmtY4Q97Yj
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiU2IcybI2i
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrSd4Aq5wZ
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjS4IZ4DoU
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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.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSS9XABKdHi
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hUD8WOnct
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp433Kmx5TY
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKW0D9Ch6K6
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwTTgtgXn7
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That boy.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgYi35W22kD
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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.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGDlcr43hm
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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?”48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwav0M6e0H5
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmawOTVTIaz
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzCSueAEwX
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.48Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIIWMrGaFS
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