✦The morning didn't break so much as… tilt.
Light fell into my room at a slightly wrong angle, like reality had shifted its weight overnight and forgotten where the horizon was supposed to be.
I sat at the edge of the bed, elbows on my knees, and watched the faint shimmer running along the windowpane. Not a system message. Not a glitch. Something subtler.
A correction.
[ Narrative Discrepancy Detected: Local Reality Offset—0.03° ]
"Already?" I muttered. "I was hoping for at least one day of peace."
Peace was overrated, apparently.
✦Outside, the street looked normal. Mostly. People walked with their usual hurried pace, the same drifting conversations, the usual fragrance of morning food stalls.
But their shadows?A few dragged half a second behind their owners.A few moved too early.
And one man's shadow paused to look at me —even though the man himself didn't.
"Yeah," I whispered. "That's definitely new."
