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Chapter 91: The Morning the City Changed

作者: Priscilla Jude
last update 公開日: 2026-07-03 21:42:28

POV: Selene

I noticed it first because noticing things first was still, after everything, simply what I did.

The morning after the six of them returned from the old quarter, I was in the eastern administrative division at first light, the way I had been every morning for three years, reviewing the overnight correspondence logs before anyone else arrived. It was a habit built on the specific lesson that the most important things were often the quietest, arriving without announcement in the hour
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