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Episode Twenty-Eight – The Second Door.
I felt it move—not physically, not in any way I could track—but closer to me in awareness. Like it was trying to understand what I had just refused. My throat tightened. “You don’t get to do that,” I said quietly. The response was immediate.
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Episode Twenty-Seven – Terms of Engagement.
Patience shifted uneasily. “That is the least comforting phrase I’ve ever heard.” “Then you’ve lived a very sheltered life,” Raven said. Patience blinked. “I was a stripper, not a nun.” “That’s not what I meant.” “Then maybe try saying what you mean.”
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Episode Twenty-Six – The Shape of Memory
Sterling looked between me and the room. “What just happened?” “Nothing,” I said. Patience shook her head. “That did not look like nothing.” I forced my gaze away from the empty center of the room. “It’s not ready,” I said. Kendrick frowned. “What isn’t?”
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Episode Twenty-Five- The Space Between.
No one spoke. Because no one trusted what would happen if they did. Patience was shaking, her face drawn in, showing her absence of life. Sterling was gripping her arm like he wasn’t sure she was real. Kendrick stood in front of me now, his body angled slightly
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Episode Twenty-Four – What the House Keeps.
“Let’s stop pretending this is about architecture,” I said. “I thought all of this was about The Collective, about what I did, but you brought us here for another reason. You moved Patience for another reason. You sat us down at this table for another reason.”
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Episode Twenty-Three- The Waiting Room.
Patience walked close to me, her usual chatter noticeably absent. Sterling stayed just behind her, eyes scanning every doorway we passed. Kendrick lingered at the rear, quiet in a way that meant he was paying attention to everything.
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Episode Twenty-Two – The House That Watches.
The room beyond was all glass and moonlight, a long, elegant chamber filled with winter plants, pale stone tiles, and wrought iron furniture dusted with cold silver light. Snow pressed softly against the outside panes. In the center of the room sat Patience.
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Episode Twenty-One – Cat and Mouse
I should have kept my finger on the pulse of the world around me a little longer, but I had grown comfortable writing my little romance stories and living my invented life.
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Episode Twenty – The Collective.
“And some clans see you as a legend fighting against the status quo. You helped to kill an ancient, rid the world of a power-hungry animal.” He spun the ring on his finger, the ring that Alard used to wear.
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Episode Nineteen – Shotgun
Raven settled in her seat. Her eyes that were only seconds earlier lingering over Kendrick as I would over a triple-layer tort, were suddenly cunning and dark.
