Chapter 61: The Moment It Hesitated

Chapter 61: The Moment It Hesitated

Chapter 61

Ariana did not know how much time had passed. She stood still, forcing her breathing into something steady even though nothing around her changed. There was no sky, no shift in light, no sound that marked time moving forward. The darkness stretched endlessly in every direction, not empty, but wrong in a way she could not fully explain, like something that existed without needing form and had simply chosen to hold her inside it.

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