The clinic was silent except for the rhythmic ticking of the clock. Every second felt like a drop of water in a bucket, steady, predictable, and cold. Lumina sat at her desk, her eyes tracing the lines of the medical ledger until the numbers began to look very blurry."Eleven months since I stepped off that bus with nothing but eighty-three dollars and a heart full of ash," she thought, her fingers tracing the edge of the paper. "Eleven months of building these walls, brick by brick, just to make sure no one can ever see the girl who broke on that stone platform. I've survived, but sometimes I wonder if I'm just a ghost haunting my own life. I wonder if….."Lumina? You're doing it again," a voice chirped from the doorway, interrupting Lumina's thoughts.Lumina didn't look up. She didn't need to. "Doing what, Mira?""Staring at that book like it's a portal to another dimension," Mira said, leaning against the frame with a wide, annoying grin. She twisted a silver ring on her finger. "Y
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