TIME TO FALL IN LOVE
"Drowning in a metal box. While you are back where you belong. In the tank."
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She signaled to the guards, and the table tilted, sliding me toward a massive, transparent cylinder filled with a glowing, amber fluid. My heart hammered against my ribs—the sound of a trapped animal. The tank. The beginning and the end of my nightmare.
As the fluid began to rise around my ankles, cold and viscous, I felt Jinyan’s ghost surge within me.
“Panni, look at her,” he whispered. “Look at her neck.”
I forced my eyes to focus. There, beneath the high collar of her lab coat, was a scar. It was identical to mine—a grey, jagged line that pulsed with a faint, rhythmic light. She wasn't just the Architect’s m
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