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Chapter 41 – The First Real Dawn

작가: Ella D’Ravyn
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The first thing I feel is silence.

Not the tense silence of hospitals or temporary safe houses. Not the oppressive silence of my childhood home, where every creak of the floorboards meant danger. This is a… living silence. Filled with the distant murmur of familiar voices, the soft sound of familiar footsteps, and the almost imperceptible hum of security systems working in the background.

I open my eyes slowly.

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