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What She Stopped Saying

Author: Loria Malf
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-07 13:46:43

Stephen’s POV

We hadn’t said goodbye.

Not really.

After the walk through the northern gardens—after that almost-conversation, after the offer I knew she wouldn’t accept—I’d watched her go without looking back. That wasn’t new. Seraphina rarely looked back at anyone these days.

But something about the way she’d left...

It stayed with me.

A finality I hadn’t been prepared for.

I used to know when her distance meant tiredness, and when it meant she was spiraling. Now it all blended together—an armor so seamless that even I couldn’t tell where she hurt.

That night, I returned to my dorm and stood for a long time at the window, just watching the lights flicker across campus. My books remained unopened. The parchment on my desk remained blank.

And I told myself, again, that it was fine.

That she was fine.

That this was just how things worked now.

But the truth settled cold in my chest.

Seraphina had stopped coming to me.

It had started small. Fewer questions about ritual logic. Less interes
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