Chapter 31 – The Line That Cannot Be Undone

Chapter 31: Chapter 31 – The Line That Cannot Be Undone

The pressure in the air did not disappear, even after I forced myself to take a slow breath.

It lingered, stretched thin but unbroken, like something invisible had settled around us and refused to dissolve simply because the moment had passed. The city still existed beyond that space, still filled with movement and distant sound, but none of it reached us in the same way anymore. It felt as though we had stepped outside of it without moving, as if everything that mattered had narrowed down to the three of us standing there.

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