Chapter 36 – The Shape of What Cannot Be Owned

Chapter 36: Chapter 36 – The Shape of What Cannot Be Owned

The silence that followed his last words did not feel like a pause between questions and answers, but rather like the moment when something unspoken began to take shape beneath everything that had already been said.

It was not empty, and it was not uncertain; it carried a kind of weight that made speaking too quickly feel like a mistake, as though the wrong word might close a door I had only just begun to see.

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