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Chapter 10: The Weight of Morning

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Dawn broke over the Shadow Den in shades of bruised violet and pale gold. I didn’t sleep. Not really. I lay staring at the wooden ceiling, Richard’s words looping in my head like a broken record. *Her mother bled on my floor.* Six years of wondering. Six years of nightmares I refused to name. Now I knew. The monster who fed me half-plates of gruel and called it shelter had killed the only person who ever looked at me like I mattered.

I slipped out of bed before the sun cleared the ridge.

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