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"The Collapse"

Author: June Calva
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-16 07:51:02

POV: Ian Greco

The transfer to maximum security supernatural detention happened at midnight.

No fanfare, no press, just guards escorting me from temporary holding to the facility that would be my home for the next twenty years. My parents hadn't visited. My father's political allies had abandoned his sinking ship. Even the lawyers who'd initially offered to defend me had withdrawn when public opinion turned decisively against my family.

I was alone. Truly alone for the first time in my life.

"Cell block seven," the guard announced, shoving me forward. "High security. No contact with general population. You're isolated for everyone's protection."

"Protecting them from me or me from them?" I asked.

"Both. You've made enough enemies that general population would kill you within a week. And you're manipulative enough that isolation is the only way to prevent you from orchestrating new schemes."

The cell was exactly what I'd expected. Small, sterile, monitored constantly. No privacy, no au
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