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Chapter 73: Sage Figures It Out (Sage POV)
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2026-03-07 13:00:36I've been keeping a mental file.
It started the morning after the feast, not as a deliberate project but as the inevitable consequence of being someone who notices things and cannot stop noticing them just because the things in question are personal rather than archival. Evidence accumulates whether you're collecting it or not. At some point the accumulation becomes a pattern, and patterns, in my experience, don't wait for convenient moments to become legible.
The
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