Morning did not arrive gently. Aria woke before the first light fully settled over the estate, her body already tense as if it had spent the night preparing for impact. Sleep had come in shallow pieces, broken by the same looping images: the black envelope, the single line of handwriting, and Kael’s eyes searching her face as though trying to remember a song he had once known by heart. She sat up slowly. The room was still dark. The heavy curtains held most of the dawn at bay, leaving only a thin gray seam of light along the floor. Aria swung her legs over the side of the bed and rested her elbows on her knees for a moment, letting the quiet press against her. The note had changed the air inside the house. She could feel it. When she finally rose and dressed, the difference became visible the moment she stepped into the hallway. Two guards stood farther down the corridor where none had been the day before. They did not look at her directly, but their presence was deliberate. Con
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