Chapter 205

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### **Chapter 205**

The silence didn’t last.

It never does.

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At first, it came as a feeling.

Not a sound.

Not movement.

A shift.

Subtle.

But wrong.

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Alex felt it before anything else happened.

A tightening in the chest.

A quiet instinct whispering—

*Now.*

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Then the lights flickered again.

Once.

Twice.

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And this time—

they didn’t steady immediately.

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Daniel stood up quickly.

“Okay… that’s not normal anymore.”

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