LEAH DECKERDarkness didn’t feel like sleep.It felt like something deeper.Heavier, like I had been pulled under something vast and endless, sinking without control, without direction… without a way back.But then, a breath, sharp and painful.Mine, it was my breath. My eyes snapped open. Air rushed into my lungs like I had been starved of it, my chest rising and falling too fast, too hard. For a second, everything was blurred. Shapes. Shadows. Movement.Then slowly, it settled. The ceiling above me wasn’t mine. Stone, rough, unfamiliar. The scent hit me next.Earth. Wood. Something metallic… blood.Tombstone.I was still here.My body felt heavy, like I had been dragged through something I couldn’t remember fully. But at the same time…Something was different. I stilled.My breathing slowed. And I listened.Not with my ears, with something deeper. I could hear it. Outside. Footsteps.Distant voices.The rhythm of movement from far beyond the walls.Even the wind… I could hear it shif
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