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Chapter 80 - The Courage to Remain

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The mornings at the residency unfolded without ceremony.

No bells. No schedules posted on walls. Just light filtering through tall windows and the quiet understanding that time would move whether or not anyone tried to command it.

Serena woke early out of habit, then learned slowly, not to punish herself for it.

She wrote for an hour. Sometimes two. Sometimes ten minutes before closing the notebook and staring out at the trees instead, letting thought loosen into something shapeless and kind.

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