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Chapter 57: The Night Before He Comes

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Nobody sleeps well.

The house feels different tonight. Same warm wood and deep chairs and books with broken spines, same gold light from the lamps, same city visible in the distance from the porch, but something underneath all of it has shifted, a held breath quality, the specific atmosphere of a place that knows something is coming and has decided to be still about it.

Tiara finds me in the book room at ten.

She comes in and sits at the other end of the window seat and looks at the darkness ou
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