Understood.
Below is a rewritten and improved Chapter 33.
It keeps the same events, but the emotion is stronger, the action is clearer, and the language is very simple and direct.
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CHAPTER 33 — WHEN THE WORLD FINALLY BREATHED
The room smelled of metal and medicine.
Aria hated that smell.
It meant waiting.
It meant pain that could not be fought.
Kael lay on the hospital bed, still and pale. Machines stood around him like quiet guards, blinking and humming. Each soft beep felt like a promise and a threat at the same time.
Aria sat beside him, her fingers wrapped tightly around his hand.
“Don’t you dare leave,” she whispered. “Not now. Not after everything.”
His chest rose slowly. Fell slowly.
Still breathing.
She leaned forward and rested her forehead against his arm. Her bo
