STEPHEN"Hello, Angela."The words hung in the air like dust motes in the dim light. My boots echoed softly on the stone floor as I stepped inside the room. It smelled of mildew and forgotten years. The walls, once white, now wore a dull gray with streaks of time and silence. Angela sat on the cot, unmoving at first until my voice reached her.She turned. Slowly. Her eyes, sunken and shadowed, found mine, and I saw the flicker of life that refused to be extinguished. There was no scream, no outburst just a ghost of a smile, dry and cracked, as if it hurt to show expression after all this time."You're not dead," she whispered."Neither are you," I replied, forcing calm into my tone. Inside, I burned. I hated this. Her. The memories she carried. But I needed her now.I walked toward her with the kind of slow confidence she used to mock. The past lay heavy between us, but I wasn’t here for that.“I need your help.”Her mouth twitched, as if laughter was too foreign a reaction.“The grea
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