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Chapter 72: First Steps
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2026-10-28 16:15:50Ivy POV
The pain didn't stop so much as it simply ran out of places left to go.One second my body was tearing itself apart from the inside, and the next, everything went strangely, impossibly quiet no burning, no ache, just a vast, humming stillness settling over me like snowfall.I opened my eyes.The world looked different. Sharper, somehow, and yet softer too, colors muted in ways I didn't have words for while other things the individual blades of grass
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