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Chapter 83: The Missing Piece (Kira POV)
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2026-03-13 13:00:21I'm two bites into a bowl of oatmeal when Sage sits down across from me.
I look up. She has her jacket on and her bag over one shoulder and the expression of someone who made a decision between the archive and the cafeteria and is acting on it before she changes her mind.
"I'll eat with you," she says. "And then I need to show you and Dante something together."
"The investigation?"
"There's a piece I didn't include in what I showed you on the riversid
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