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    In the space between myth and legend, a boy who learned to leave before he had to choose—and a girl who learned to call restraint a virtue. A chance meeting years later, under polite smiles and blinding lights, reveals the truth: unsaid things don’t disappear. They just accrue interest until someone stops asking for superhuman gifts and reaches for something just like this….

    2/2/26: Chapter 3 uploaded. Foreword added in Author's Note for Prelude (prologue) explaining the objectives of the story.

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