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2026-07-15 12:11:00Eira
Two weeks had passed since what happened in the bathing room.Over those two weeks, the deep cuts across my back had first become itchy, tight stitches, then slowly faded into thin silver-pink scars. My body had healed, but my mind remained restless. Being confined inside the palace was wearing away what little patience I had left. I wasn’t a porcelain doll. I was a street thief raised in the slums, and survival pulsed through my veins, demanding one thing.Mov
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