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Chapter 53: The Two Who Survived

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Their names are Eli and Cass.

Eli is nineteen. Cass is twenty three. They arrive at the building the following morning with Bryn's team and they are quiet in the specific way of people who have learned that quiet is survival, and I recognize that quiet the moment they walk through the door because I wore it for eight years.

I am in the main room when they come in.

Eli sees me first and something in his face does a thing that I feel in my chest, a recognition that does not need words, one male Om
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