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BOOK 2 - CHAPTER 1 - THE SOUND OF THE ROOM

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Nora’s POV

The first thing I learned to do was tell time by sound, because it was the only clock they left me.

Morning was the cart with the bad wheel. It came down the corridor at a limp, squeak and drag, squeak and drag, and stopped outside doors that weren't mine before it reached me. Then the day nurse, the one who hummed, always the same three notes, always slightly wrong, like a song she half remembered from somewhere she'd rather not think about.

The afternoon was quieter. The light thro
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