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AND THE TABLES BEGIN TO TURN...

作者: Wren Gray
last update 公開日: 2026-06-17 21:47:16

"The most confusing kind of kindness is the one that arrives after a lifetime of cruelty."

KIVA

My head hurt.

That was the first thing. Before awareness of anything else, before location or time or the question of how I had arrived wherever I was, there was the pain, sharp and specific, sitting directly behind my eyes with the particular insistence of something that intended to be the first and last thing I thought about for a while.

I groaned and pressed my face deeper into the pillow.

Then st
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