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Author: Winmo
last update publish date: 2026-08-15 07:32:46

~Lyra's POV~

I told Xavier I was going alone.

He didn't argue, which told me he had already run the calculation and arrived at the same conclusion I had, that whatever Ivan needed to say would only be said cleanly without an audience, and that an audience would make it performance rather than truth. Ivan was many things, but he had never, in my experience of him across two lifetimes, been someone who performed in the way Marissa performed. He preferred the private version of power. He preferred
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