The silence in the west wing of the packhouse was suffocating.Charollet’s bare feet whispered over cold stone, the only sound in a corridor built for silence. Her palms, raw and reddened, trembled faintly at her sides. Scrubbing the endless mosaic-tiled halls—floors she wasn’t permitted to step on unless cleaning them had become part of her ritual humiliation. Her nails were chipped, her knuckles cracked, and every bone in her spine screamed from hours spent on her knees. Still, she stood straight. Not proudly, but deliberately.Her hair, once cascading in golden waves, now clung to her scalp in tangled strands. Weeks of ash and labor had dulled it to the color of broken straw, yet in the right light, it still shimmered faintly, rebelliously. Her storm-grey eyes, so often dulled by sorrow, had sharpened to steel. They did not weep anymore.She refused to let them.Pain no longer frightened her. It was a daily companion constant, predictable, duller than the cruel laughter of the other
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