Rosalie's POVThe weeks that followed the game, the archive discoveries, the elders' unsettling inquiry, settled into something I hadn't expected to find inside these walls at all: quiet.Not the hollow, waiting quiet of those first days at the cabin, when every silence between us had carried the weight of things neither of us was ready to say. Something gentler. Ordinary, almost, in a way that felt strange to name given everything still hanging unresolved around us Magnus's silence about the bloodline, Easton's unraveling, Brenda's careful maneuvering through the elders. But underneath all of that, something small and steady had taken root in our own quarters, and I found myself, more days than not, simply living inside it rather than bracing against whatever crisis might arrive next.It started, I think, with the chores.Neither of us discussed it directly. There was no formal conversation about who would handle what, no negotiation over responsibilities the way I imagined other ne
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