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I wake up choking.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPY2nHM5T3
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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.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGStdJoGluJ
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But there’s no fire now.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8BOT5G7gy
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Just sunlight.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDJpP8Kgsrt
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Warm, quiet, golden sunlight spilling through silk curtains that don’t belong in my room.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3No8m4geqj
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I sit up fast. My head spins.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm604ojZUM7
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Everything’s too… perfect. Too expensive. The air smells like lavender and something faintly metallic.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYr3rrNTIjh
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Right. The palace. The festival. Clara.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSW0fhSqEbY
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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.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOcIK4tDHZH
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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?”101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9TZLUfNzr
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No answer. Just birds chirping outside, like the universe doesn’t care that someone got murdered last night.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qNUIR5ax9
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I glance around the room again — huge, pale marble floors, carved furniture, and a mirror taller than me.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPXyKWZyO8
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A stranger’s reflection stares back — long black hair, soft white dress, bare feet.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHaUjWzlOR
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That’s not Lily. That’s Ariana.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsJM6enlkV
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My stomach twists. “Okay,” I mutter to myself, “so this is still happening. I didn’t dream the dream. Fantastic.”101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMcG9F2fB42
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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.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkctNsiFo9
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Somewhere outside, a bell rings. Footsteps echo down the corridor. Servants. Life going on like nothing happened.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkso2UD2hIi
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I whisper, “Clara’s dead. And I’m still here.”101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofiDugCTyZ
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The words taste wrong. Bitter.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlXtM19nXn
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Then a colder thought creeps in — slow, dangerous.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgYIcqe96i
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That boy.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8LzDcZm9sM
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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.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstPQEwB7ky
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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?”101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6b6kAbGMZ4
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Silence. Only my heartbeat answers back.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDYtWSYW2aE
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I fall back on the bed, staring at the ceiling.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhn8Up37jut
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My throat feels dry, my brain a mess of too many questions and zero logic.101Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7hqAWIPeS
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