CHAPTER 23 — She Felt Herself Slipping Away
Lia woke with a strange emptiness in her chest — not sharp, not painful, but hollow. The kind of hollow that made her sit still for a moment, breathing slowly, as if she needed to remember who she was before the day began. She stared at the faint morning light spilling across her desk. Her notebook lay open, waiting. She didn’t touch it. She didn’t want to see the truth she wrote last night — that she was losing something, that she didn’t know how to reach back, that silence was becoming a language she didn’t know how to break. She pressed a hand to her chest. Why does it feel like I’m disappearing from my own life? 🌤️ A Morning That Felt Like Moving Through Water At the research building, her group was already gathered. Aria waved her over. “Lia! We’re finalizing the script f
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