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... ied. Lay on the bed. Closed my eyes. Counted breaths. Attempted the Void Meridian meditation that usually pulled me under within minutes.
But the heartbeat beneath the academy was wrong.
Not louder — I’d expected louder. Not faster — I’d prepared for faster. Wrong in a way that my vocabulary struggled to capture. The rhythm that I’d been monitoring for weeks — that slow, steady, accelerating pulse of something vast and sleeping — had become irregular. Stuttering. Like a heart dev ...
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