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Chapter 55: The Ledge
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2026-03-21 22:09:19
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POV: MelinaShe went out at one AM.Not to the greenhouse. Not yet. Just to test it....the ledge, the timing, the distance from the garden wall. She needed to know it held before she committed to it fully and she needed to know it at night, in the dark, under real conditions and not daylight approximations from a second floor window.She dressed in dark clothes. Tied her hair back. Put her phone on silent and left it on the bed because if something went wrong she didn't want it on her.She went out through the east wing side door.***The ledge was eight inches wide.She'd estimated that from the window and she'd estimated right, which was a small relief. She found the access point where the maintenance ladder was bolted to the exterior wall, half hidden behind a drainpipe, exactly where she'd calculated it would be from the building's original layout diagrams she'd found in the delegation resource files.She climbed up.Tested her weight on the ledge.It held.She moved along it slow
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