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Cara

Author: Winmo
last update publish date: 2026-08-22 19:19:34

~Xavier's POV~

The tea was still hot when the phone rang.

I had been at the desk since six thirty with the territorial correspondence that I had been meaning to finish for three days and had been consistently deprioritised by things that were more urgent. Nothing was more urgent this morning. I had made the decision that nothing would be more urgent this morning. I had told Lyra I wanted mornings that weren't briefings, and Lyra had told Soren the same thing, and for eleven consecutive days the
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