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Chapter 102 : Victory's Price

Autor: L.M.Daveth
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-03-28 01:45:07

Lena's POV

Nobody celebrated and I want to be honest about why.

It was not grief, though grief was present. It was not exhaustion, though exhaustion was absolute. It was something more specific than either of those things. It was the particular flatness that came from having spent so long in survival mode that the removal of the immediate threat did not produce relief so much as it produced the absence of threat, which turned out to feel very different from relief.

People sat down. That was mos
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