🖱️Jayden🖱️ Dad Alex leaned back slightly in his chair, fingers steepled, his calm unreadable expression settling into something sharper. “Alright,” he said evenly, eyes moving between me and Jane, “will you both tell us why you couldn’t move earlier, and why you were bleeding when we found you.” My stomach dropped, because I was already expecting this question but I don’t know if it was ok to tell them the truth… the real truth. I opened my mouth, already rehearsing a watered down version of the truth that would not completely ruin their sense of reality. “Well, papa, the academy—” “We were playing a game,” Jane cut in smoothly before I could finish, her voice light and careless, like she was talking about cards instead of blood and portals. “A stupid one. It got out of hand.” I turned to look at her. Dad Jay’s brows lifted slowly, suspicion creeping into his face like a familiar friend. “A game,” he repeated. “That ends with bleeding, paralysis, and fainting.” Jane smiled at
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