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Chapter 96 - The Pages That Remember

✦Morning came wrong.

Not loud.Not violent.Just… remembering.

The air carried the faint echo of something I hadn't said.The ground hummed under my feet like a page whispering my name after I'd walked past.

Even the sunlight felt hesitant, as if checking whether it was entering the right chapter.

The girl slept curled beneath my extra blanket — or tried to sleep.Her outline flickered every minute, small pulses running down her arms like static.

A reminder that she wasn't supposed to exist.A reminder that δ hadn't lied.

I sat near the door, back against the wall, watching her chest rise and fall.

More accurately—

Watching the world watch her.

✦A soft ripple passed through the room.

An object shifted on the desk.

A pencil rolled slowly — defying gravity, rolling uphill for two seconds before stopping.

"Not subtle," I muttered.

[ System Notice: Spatial Drift Detected ][ Severity: Low ][ Cause: Narrative Echoes Retained Post-Corridor ]

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