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Chapter 83
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2026-05-12 09:11:48Selina's POV
The alley was the kind of place that didn't appear on any map.Not literally.... it existed, it had a location, it could be found by anyone who knew the street grid well enough. But it had the quality of spaces that existed outside the city's official narrative, the gaps between the visible architecture where things happened that required the absence of witnesses.I had chosen itThat was the thing I kept coming back to as I stood in it...
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