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Chapter 73: The Nightingale’s Cage
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2025-11-08 15:12:38The Nightingale Sanatorium was less a hospital and more a fortress disguised as a country club. Its ivy-covered stone walls seemed to absorb sound, creating an aura of profound, unsettling silence. High-tech surveillance cameras, cleverly concealed within antique-looking gargoyles and wrought-iron fixtures, watched every approach. This wasn’t a place you could assault; it was a place you had to be invited into.
And Catherine Sterling, with the cold, brilliant precision of a master
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