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238. Early Ground

Author: Nightingale
last update publish date: 2026-04-16 23:59:28

Blake's POV:

The forest was mine before anyone else wanted it.

That was the thing about early mornings at Midnight Academy. The grounds belonged to whoever got there first and at five forty seven in the morning the answer to that was almost always me. The trail through the east woods was packed dirt and exposed root and the kind of uneven ground that required actual attention which was exactly why I ran it. Attention was the point. Attention meant the rest of it stayed quiet.

I ran.

The air had
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