Chapter 172 - 172: Out Of My Head (pt.1)

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Ten minutes. That's all they had between the first performances and the second ones.

Ten minutes to breathe, regroup, reset, do everything in their power to calm the fuck down and somehow convince their bodies and brains to get back out there and do it all over again — except better this time. Significantly better.

Backstage, Yen's team was doing their collective best to hold it together. Which, to be honest, was looking increasingly like a losing battle. The spiral had already started — the quiet, insidious kind, where everyone is very visibly trying not to think about the thing they're absolutely thinking about. Eyes going glassy. Shoulders climbing toward ears. The energy of people who were very much in their own heads and sinking deeper by the second.

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