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IVY’S POV

Silence shouldn’t feel this loud.

But it did.

After the shadow disappeared, after the walls stopped breathing and the air settled back into something almost normal—I expected relief.

Instead, I felt… empty.

Not calm.

Not safe.

Empty.

Like something had been ripped out of me and the space it left behind hadn’t decided what to become yet.

Kael’s hand was still on my arm.

Firm.

Grounding.

Too grounding.

I pulled away.

Not hard.

Just enough.

“I’m fine,” I said quickly.

A lie.

A bad one.

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