Chapter 44: Three Months Later

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Three Months Later

Three months changed the shape of a life more quietly than most people imagined.

There were no dramatic montages. No sudden shift where the sky looked different and the city bowed in acknowledgment. Aurelia City remained what it had always been—glass towers catching light they did not earn, buses running late, vendors shouting over traffic, students surviving on cheap food and ambition. The world kept moving at its usual pace.

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