The room remained completely silent long after Alex finished reading the letter.Nobody spoke Nobody moved.Even the children, who usually struggled to stay quiet for more than a few minutes, seemed to sense that something had changed.Not just the situation and not just the danger but Something deeper and something far more personal.Because the moment Dera's face lost color, everyone understood that the stranger's words had touched a memory she had been unable to reach until now.A memory hidden somewhere beneath months of trauma, fear, grief, and recovery.And judging from the look in her eyes, that memory was finally beginning to resurface.Dera felt her heartbeat pounding loudly inside her ears while fragments of forgotten moments drifted through her mind like pieces of broken glass. None of them were complete. None of them made sense on their own. They appeared and disappeared before she could properly grasp them, leaving behind only feelings instead of answers.Fear, darkness c
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