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Learning Peace

Author: CiciMiller
last update publish date: 2026-04-29 20:37:49

POV: Scarlett

Morning came in quietly.

Not dramatically, not with the weight of everything the day before, just light moving slowly across the ceiling, the muffled sound of the city somewhere below, a warmth under the blankets that had nothing to do with the season.

Scarlett surfaced gradually, aware of herself before she was fully awake, and noticed, before she could identify why, that something felt different. Not wrong. Not the particular vigilance her body had learned to reach for in the fi
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