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Chapter 123: Red Eyes

Author: Eleanor Vance
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 03:14:56

Alexander had been working on something for three weeks.

I knew this because I had been listening. Not monitoring, not the vigilant kind of attention that had once been necessary for different reasons, just the natural awareness of a person who had learned to pay attention to the specific sounds of her household and could now distinguish between the sounds that were routine and the sounds that were development.

The sounds had started at three months.

Consonants, mostly. The particular focused r
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