Mia’s POVThe corridors of the palace no longer echoed with footsteps. They echoed with memories. Some were mine. Some were not.I walked past a mirror and saw myself stop—but I hadn’t stopped. My reflection moved two seconds behind me, then two seconds ahead, then vanished entirely. My pulse didn’t rise anymore when it happened. We'd grown used to the impossible.Not numb. Just… resigned.Damian watched me from the end of the hallway. “You’re doing it again.”“Doing what?”“Walking like the floor might collapse under you.” His voice was low, quiet, familiar. “You haven’t trusted this place since the trial.”“I don’t trust myself,” I admitted.He walked toward me, slowly, deliberately. He’d learned that I needed slowness these days, even though I never said it aloud.“You don’t need to trust anything,” he said. “You just need to stand still long enough to feel the ground again.”I wanted to say something romantic, something smart. Instead, I stared at the marble under my feet and
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