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77. A Fragile New Beginning

Penulis: Cate_Mae
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Albert

When I woke up, the first thing I felt was hunger. It was a deep, clawing hunger that hollowed out my insides and made my hands tremble as if I hadn’t eaten for days. My lips were dry, my throat parched, and every bone in my body ached as though I had walked to the ends of the earth. For a long moment, I simply lay there, staring at the thatched roof above me, trying to remember where I was.

The air smelled of smoke and earth, faintly of herbs. My ears caught the faint murmur of voices outside, rhythmic and foreign, almost soothing. Slowly, I pushed myself upright and realized I was lying on a straw bed, covered with a soft woolen blanket that wasn’t mine. My chest rose and fell heavily, and when I tried to swing my legs over the edge, my knees buckled under me.

That was when the curtain covering the doorway shifted, and an elderly man stepped in. He had a long face carved by years of wisdom and struggle, his hair silver, his posture steady. Despite the lines around his eyes, t
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