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It forms behind the ribs — a slick volcanic bloom. Not fire, but what’s left when fire forgets you. Fear: fast-cooled glass — black, biting, beautiful. It cuts when held too tightly, becomes a mirror when you dare to look. She wears it beneath her skin: a blade that’s never swung but always humming. No one sees it shimmer — this shiv of shadow, buried — but it shapes her posture, her pauses, her paths around half-open doors. Even silence is edged.
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It forms behind the ribs — a slick volcanic bloom. Not fire, but what’s left when fire forgets you. Fear: fast-cooled glass — black, biting, beautiful. It cuts when held too tightly, becomes a mirror when you dare to look. She wears it beneath her skin: a blade that’s never swung but always humming. No one sees it shimmer — this shiv of shadow, buried — but it shapes her posture, her pauses, her paths around half-open doors. Even silence is edged.
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