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The bond didn't just weaken. It was replaced.That was the thing she kept coming back to as she sat in the outbuilding with the second document open across her knees and the warm ash smell in the air and the low whisper frequency sitting in the back of her teeth where Sora's converted presence put it. The bond hadn't frayed the way it did with distance or interference. It hadn't gone quiet the way it did when Orion was deep in sleep or deep in focus. Something had moved into it. Something had taken the channel she shared with him and made itself at home in it, the way an intruder didn't just enter a house but rearranged the furniture.She had felt it happen at midday, while she was reading the passage in the second document about the Unmade's interaction with bonded pairs. One moment the bond was there in the way it was always there, the background warmth of him, the quiet presence of a person she knew well enough that his absence would have felt like a missing tooth. The next moment