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Nothing Urgent

作者: Sommy Writes
last update 公開日: 2026-05-20 05:32:23

Elise's POV

I woke up on Saturday at seven and lay there waiting for the thing that was supposed to come next.

It didn't come.

No briefing. No update from Nico. No file that needed reading before breakfast. No call from Marco that I had to decode while pretending I wasn't decoding it. No sense of something building toward a point that required my full attention. Just a Saturday morning in November with grey light coming through the curtains and the estate quiet around me and absolutely nothing
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