“Oww.”The sound scrapes out of me before I can swallow it.Everything hurts. It's neither the sharp kind of hurt nor the shallow surface-level pain.This is the deep, dragging ache that settles in the bones, the kind you only feel when your whole body has been taken apart and put back together wrong.I try to take a deep breath, only to instantly regret it.My ribs scream, my muscles seize, and for a moment I swear I’m dying all over again.Goddess, this feeling. I know it too well.An unfamiliar ceiling swims into view, the soft shadows across it blurring and sharpening as I blink. Lavender lingers in the air, but beneath it is something else—warm, grounding, painfully familiar.Someone was here.“Who…?”The word dissolves before it’s fully formed as the pain in my body flares again, pulsing like a heartbeat under my skin, and suddenly the memories slam into me without mercy.This is just like that time.The first time my body felt like it was trying to tear itself apart from the in
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