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Chapter 7: Fractured Light
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04.06.2026 23:00:55The air was dry. The bitter musk of cedar and raw tobacco smothered my senses, laced with the residual heat of a man who had stayed the night.
I opened my eyes to a strange scent.
The ceiling was too high. Fractured light, watery and restless, rippled across the dove-gray walls.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the swimming
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