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The diner was warm, bright, and busy.
The diner was warm, bright, and busy—so bright it made the rainy night outside seem like a rumor. Light spilled from the big windows onto…
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The ballroom was built for spectacle.
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The garden looked too peaceful for a lie.
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The ballroom glittered like a place where hunger was not supposed to exist.
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No one invited the child to the rooftop.
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The diner had been loud a second ago.
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The alley smelled like mud, rust, and rain that never fully dried.
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The street was quiet in the way old streets often are — not empty, just holding their breath.
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People at the café noticed the old man before they noticed the children.
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When Adrian Morel came home that afternoon, he was not supposed to see anything.
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