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The Dissection Of A Rival

Author: Theemage
last update publish date: 2026-03-15 05:15:42

Danny's POV

The lecture hall felt like a pressurized chamber. The hum of the air conditioning was the only thing filling the silence as Professor Chadwick stood at the front of the room. He wasn't teaching. He had a slide projected on the screen behind him, something about parasites and the way they drain the life from a host but he hadn't clicked the remote in twenty minutes.

He was just staring. At us. At me.

I sat frozen, my notebook empty except for a few jagged lines where my hand had sha
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