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Chapter 78: Nathaniel Chooses
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2026-01-06 00:23:00Bloom House Floral was dark when Nathaniel Crosswell arrived.
The streetlamps along Florentis Quarter cast a muted glow across the stone walkway, catching the edges of shuttered windows and the iron sign above the shop. Everything here felt deliberately restrained, as if noise itself had been trained to behave. It was not a place Nathaniel belonged. That fact had never stopped him before.
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