Japhet’s POVIt didn’t settle.That was the first thing I understood.Because I had thought—wrongly, foolishly—that once the truth revealed itself, once it tore through everything I had built and left nothing standing, it would at least land somewhere, at least become something I could contain, something I could carry in a way that made sense.But it didn’t. It moved. Restless. Sharp. Unforgiving.It didn’t sit inside me quietly, didn’t remain in one place long enough for me to understand it, instead it spread, crawling through every part of me, turning thought into pressure, turning silence into something loud, something unbearable.And the worst part—Was that it didn’t leave room for escape.I couldn’t justify it. Couldn’t reshape it. Couldn’t turn it into something else.Because there was no version of this where I wasn’t the one responsible.So it stayed. And it grew. By morning, it had already changed something.Not visibly, not in a way anyone would immediately name, but intern
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