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2026-11-13 22:48:33"I appreciate that," Harrison said, his voice steadier than it had been in the hospital, though still carrying the thinness of a man recovering from something that had nearly killed him. "I would like to begin, if it's all the same to everyone. I've spent twenty-five years building toward not saying any of this. I find I no longer have the patience to delay it further."
Zariel sat across from him, close enough to be present, far enough to give him room. "We're listening.""B
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"A mention, once, from the second proxy in the chain, of a family that had 'gone quiet properly,' his exact phrase, which struck me at the time as an odd way to describe grief. I asked what he meant. He declined to elaborate, and I was, I'll admit, relieved not to press further. Some part of me understood, even then, that I didn't want the answer badly enough to fight for it." Harrison's voice had gone hollow. "I have thought about that phrase more times over the years than I'd like to admit. 'Gone quiet properly.' As though quiet were something that could be done correctly or incorrectly. As though someone had made certain of it.""You think the wife's death wasn't natural either.""I think I have spent twenty-five years not asking questions whose answers I suspected would require me to act, and I am considerably less proud of that pattern than I once managed to convince myself I should be.""Who," Kaelen pressed, leaning forward. "Harrison, I need a name
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"Tired in a way I don't think sleep fixes anymore." Harrison's eyes moved slowly around the room, cataloguing it the way he'd once catalogued a boardroom, though the effort clearly cost him considerably more now. "Frightened, if I'm honest, which is not a word I've used about myself in longer than I can remember. A body doesn't forget being that close to stopping. Mine keeps reminding me at inconvenient moments.""You collapsed mid-sentence. You'd earned the fear.""I suppose I had." Something almost like a smile crossed his face, thin and exhausted. "For what it's worth, Kaelen, I've had a great deal of time lying here to think about exactly how I want to spend whatever's left of whatever this is. I've decided cowardice isn't on the list anymore. It's cost me too much already.""You said something, before you collapsed. That whoever's behind this is closer than we'd like.""I did. I meant it, and I still mean it, though I find I need to build up
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