The Palace of Buried Names
Inside the library, silence no longer felt like rest, but like suspension, and when she sat down with a book she did not intend to read, she found herself pausing repeatedly without awareness of why she was pausing, as though her attention was waiting for something that no longer existed in the room but had not yet been removed from her expectation of it.
Days passed in a rhythm that pretended to be unchanged, yet Meera began to recognize that absence does not behave like emptiness, because emptiness suggests lack, whereas this felt more like presence that had been removed from visibility but not from influence, and she started noticing how often she turned toward spaces without realizing sh
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