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Author: Roshni
last update publish date: 2026-04-03 00:50:36

Rydan’s POV

I didn’t stop moving long enough to answer him.

Franklin’s wrist was in my hand and I was walking fast toward the academy gate and he was keeping up because he had learned, over weeks of this, that when I moved with this particular quality of urgency the questions could come later and the moving needed to happen now. He asked once more as we came through the gate and I gave him nothing and he stopped asking.

We flagged a cab on the first block.

The journey back was silent. Not the u
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