The shift did not happen all at once. It crept in slowly, like a shadow stretching across the ground at dusk, quiet but impossible to ignore. Eliana felt it before she saw anything change, a pressure building around her, pressing against her chest, her thoughts, her very sense of self. The void that had once felt empty now felt crowded, as though something unseen had drawn closer, watching, waiting, studying her with an interest that made her skin crawl.She did not move at first. Walking away from the hospital room had taken more strength than she wanted to admit, and now that she was back in this endless space, the weight of that choice settled heavily inside her. She had expected relief, something light, something freeing. Instead, what she felt was complicated, tangled in a way she could not easily name. There was a dull ache beneath her ribs, a quiet voice whispering that she had left something unfinished again, that she had turned her back too quickly, too easily. But another pa
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