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Vigil
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2026-05-20 14:00:00Nikolai's Pov
The bullet had gone into his side and the surgeon said it had missed everything critical by a margin that made me understand for the first time in my life what the word margin actually meant.
I had been in the chair beside his bed for six hours and I was not planning to move.
Ace was asleep, the monitors beside him were steady and the room was quiet.
Ivan was in the corridor o
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Ace's PovThe walls had started breathing somewhere around the third hour. A slow expansion and contraction. I knew it was not real, i could not stop watching anyway."Nikolai. The walls.""I see them too." His voice came from somewhere close. His hand was steady against my arm. Steady felt like the wrong word for something that kept dissolving at the edges every time I tried to focus on it."You do not see them. You are lying to make me feel less insane.""I am not lying." Ivan spoke from my other side. "I am telling you they are not breathing. Your eyes are telling you something, your brain has decided to believe it."Rem had arrived forty minutes ago. His equipment was spread across the small table in whatever room we had retreated to. His face carried the specific tightness of someone working against a clock he did not fully understand.
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