Chapter 1 · UNLEARN
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THE COST
5 min · 1,065 words · FreeDawn didn't arrive gently. It just revealed what was left. The sun climbed anyway, indifferent to what it rose over, throwing the same impartial light across wreckage that it would have thrown across a wedding — the one witness in the sky that never looks away, and never lies about what it finds once the mist finally clears.