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Chapter 39

Author: Kazmiyah
last update publish date: 2026-04-17 09:12:05

Time didn’t announce it.

It didn’t arrive with celebration, or relief, or any clean dividing line that declared this is peace now.

There was no moment where everything suddenly became different, no dramatic shift that made them stop and realize the struggle was over.

It simply settled in instead—quietly, almost cautiously—like something that had been watching from a distance for a long time and, after years of tension, finally decided it no longer needed to run, or interfere, or brace for impac
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