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0014: Watching Her Return

Author: FlyingDove
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-15 03:26:16

BENJAMIN’S POV

The letter came two weeks later.

It came through formal inter-pack channels, stamped with the seals of the Northern Medical Coalition. Callum brought it to my office himself, his expression carefully neutral in the way that told me the contents were significant before I’d opened the envelope.

“This came for you,” he said. “From the north.”

The Shadow Moon seal sat prominent in the corner — the same seal stamped on the denial letter for Patient 47-2. I stared at it a moment too lo
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