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96: Disbelieve, Destroyed & Damaged

Penulis: Chris Muna
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-10-21 01:53:05

Seraphine stood in the middle of the classroom again. Same sunlight. Same faces. Same stillness.

The professor wrote across the board in elegant white strokes:

“Truth.”

She didn’t wait for him to call her name this time.

“I know what I did,” she said quietly.

The whole class turned to her in eerie synchronization.

With a determined glint in her eye, she ventured another truth, desperately hoping it would prove to be the one that finally resonated.

A pause. Then the faintest whispe
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