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My eyes open slowly.
Not all at once. I blink once. Twice. Focusing. I don’t remember falling asleep.
The realization settles somewhere quiet in my chest. Strange, how easily sleep came. Strange, how I didn’t fight it. Usually, sleep is a wall I have to climb—but here, in this car, with the steady rhythm of the wheels and the silence beside me, it just... happened.
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