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The Next Room
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2026-10-18 01:55:49"What time," Zariel asked, though some cold, certain part of her already knew.
"Two in the morning," Silas said. "Every night, without fail, for approximately ninety seconds. Something in this apartment is listening, and reporting what it hears, on a schedule precise enough to suggest an automated system rather than a person manually collecting it."Kaelen's jaw had gone tight. "Can you read the content?""No. It's encrypted well enough that I cannot break it withou
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