LeahThe aftermath of the chaos felt almost unreal, as though the world had shifted too quickly for my body to keep up with it, leaving me suspended somewhere between exhaustion and clarity while everything around me settled into a fragile, hard-earned order.Julian had been captured alive, dragged down from whatever delusion of power he had been clinging to, and the three cabinet elders who had aligned themselves with him were exposed without room for denial, their carefully constructed facades collapsing under the weight of evidence and witness alike. For once, justice had not been delayed, twisted, or buried—it had arrived swiftly, decisively, and without mercy.And yet, none of that mattered to me in that moment.Because I was tired.Not the kind of tired that could be solved with sleep, but the kind that settled into the bones, heavy and unrelenting, the kind that made even standing feel like an act of defiance.I barely registere
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