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The night spreads over the cabin like a thick shroud, and the cold seeping in from the forest seems to slip through every crack, as if it wants to remind us that out there the world is hostile, and the warmth we have now is fragile, almost borrowed. I’m at the table, leafing through a book I left open since the afternoon without really reading, when a fleeting flash—something that doesn’t match the slow rhythm of snow and darkness—cuts my breath short. It’s not just any reflection, because the light doesn’t come from inside, but from outside, from a low, distant point, as if someone moved a flashlight or a shard of glass caught the moonlight and threw it straight at my window.
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