10/05/2026 20:21

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I know you value your privacy, ma petite. I put the tip of the blade under the ribs. We recognized each other as powers, but there wasn't time for anything else, but there would be later. I blinked past the light, trying to see.

Just like that. The song cut through the darkness, crawled through it, one moment uplifting, the next mournful. Any good citizen would. Unless we're very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.