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CHAPTER 75

Author: Godymercy
last update publish date: 2026-07-06 16:19:26

Serra calls on a Friday evening, eight days before my departure.

I am at the east courtyard when the phone rings, sitting alone in the particular quiet of a space that is about to stop being mine in the daily way it has been mine, and the call comes through on the secure line Kade arranged, the same channel we used for our first conversation weeks ago.

I answer on the second ring.

"Zara," she says.

Her voice is the same as the first call. Low and certain. The particular quality of a person who
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