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Walls Crumbling
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2025-08-27 00:16:46Lysander’s POV
I have always been good at hiding. Hiding my fear, my anger, my loneliness. You have to, when life keeps showing you the same lesson over and over, trust no one, rely on no one. Itbis easier that way. Safer. Less messy.But tonight… nothing about tonight is safe or easy. Alejandro calls us into the meeting room, Koa and Zenith at the front, Alejandro looming behind them like a wall we are not supposed to cross. And then he speaks, and somehow I know we ar
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