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Chapter 69: Selene (Dante POV)
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2026-03-05 13:00:39The library is the one place in this compound that has never required anything of me.
No performance. No calibration. No management of how I'm being perceived. Just shelves and the particular quality of silence that accumulates in rooms full of books, denser than regular silence, more textured. I've been coming here since I was old enough to read and it has never once asked me to be the heir or my father's son or anything other than a person who needed somewhere to be.
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