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CHAPTER ELEVEN—THE SAFE ROOM

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For a moment, the world outside the small room felt suspended, just the faint static in Kai’s earpiece and Elara’s own heartbeat pounding in her ears. She still hadn’t processed everything she’d seen, everything she now suspected. But the look on Kai’s face told her she wouldn’t get answers here.

Not now.

He adjusted the strap of the medical kit across his back and reached out a hand to her. Not touching, just offering.

“Elara, we have to move.” His voice was firm again, steady, back in that controlled mode she was beginning to understand. “They’re sweeping the halls. If we stay here, we’re exposed.”

She forced herself to stand. Her legs trembled, partly from exhaustion, partly from the weight of everything she had learned in just one hour. Every step toward him felt like stepping into deeper fog.

“Where are you taking me?” she asked quietly.

Kai hesitated, as though measuring how much truth she could handle. “Somewhere no one can reach you.”

She didn’t know if she believed him. But t
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