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Chapter 12 : The Fire

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last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-04-09 21:18:43

LUNA’S POINT OF VIEW

I stopped counting the days.

At first I tried. I scratched lines in my head. I marked time by meals, by sleep, by the sound of the guard’s boots outside my cell. But somewhere in the third week, it stopped meaning anything. Twenty years is too big to count. It swallows numbers whole.

So I stopped.

Now I count smaller things.

The sound of keys in the morning. The way the evening guard drags his feet. The exact moment the corridor goes quiet at night. The smell of food before
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