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hing that felt real. A steady, cold metro
dy that had failed her. The air scraped her lungs with each
ed, replaced by the s
, leaning on her father's arm. Friends from school, their faces pale and confused. They wer
hs bled into one another. The mourne
person r
, a man.
shadow in the back of the classroom, a ghost in the hallways. Quiet. Always alone.
was at h
r name. He never cried. He just stood there, his eyes as empty as a winter sky, his frame grow
fternoon, he collapsed. His body hit the froze
gh Genesis's soul. It wasn't her pain. It was his. The crushing weight of a love s
oved
ht was a
to me, he was jus
gasp that filled her lung
and death. It was chalk dust
he low drone of a history lecture
is bl
a wooden desk, the sunlight of a September aftern
elsea
voice chirped from
lipboard in her hand, her lips pursed in their
le
er ribs. She scanned the room, her eyes landing on the e
a little tsk of annoyance. She drew a sharp l
ed from the ro
didn't show
he new Northgate development site down
. Freak. Weirdo. Loner. That's al
ruth. She had seen the
ered the way he flinched if someone got too close. She had dismissed it, like everyone else. She had
started
okay? Was someone hurting
, listening to a lecture about the Peloponnesian War, while the boy
d to f
o
he legs of her chair scraped loudly against the linoleu
e turned
up into her hairline. "Miss
whispers. Her gaze was fixed on the do
said, her voice surprisingly steady.
ut her face was so pale, her eyes so wi
mission, Genesis grabbed her backpack from
helsea whispered, her
s a woman on a mission, fueled by a ghost's
d floor. She ran down the hallway, past lockers and curious faces, and bu
clue. But now she had a destination, a name that grounded the vague whispers into
grounds, toward the part of town her
rned, but sh
vowed to the ghost in her memory. I'll f
r arm, flagging down a yellow taxi. She slid into
ired face, looked at her in the
ction site, a neighborhood known for
the window. It was all so real it made her dizzy. She pinched the skin on t
see was Cas, collapsing by her grave, a
other, tracing hot path
ere, miss?" the d
d. She met his eyes in the mirror, her own gaze
, her voice trembling but firm.
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