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“I bought the books you liked. The ones with the fox and the crown? And the sketchpads. They’re upstairs, in your room.”

Still nothing. The girl didn’t even blink. Her eyes remained fixed on the drawing, assessing it, as if to find even the most imperceptible imperfections. The girl’s hand hovered briefly over her drawing, fingers smudged with paint. She reached for a soft brush to sweep a small dot from the corner of the page but didn’t speak, didn’t nod, didn’t offer so much as a glance at the woman behind her.

It wasn’t defiance. It was detachment.

The kind that sank deep and stayed, like ink in skin.

The woman tried again, a little smile tugging at her lips. It didn’t reach her eyes. “I even found the glitter pens you used to like,” she said with a lightness that sounded like effort. “The imported ones. With the pastel barrels.”

No reaction.

Just the sound of the brush against paper, delicate, almost reverent.

“I brought those lemon cookies too,” the woman added, her
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