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8: The Note Writer

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The second note appeared on a Tuesday, and the first thing I did when I found it was verify that I hadn't lost my mind.

Dinner had been delivered at seven. I was at my desk with the script, running the traitor's dialogue in the obsessive loop that had replaced sleep as my primary cognitive occupation since the second rehearsal take. I registered the sounds of delivery without looking up — the wheel-squeak of the cart, the clink of dishes being arranged, the particular soft precision of someone
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