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Chapter 53: THE BOY IN THE STREET
Author: Mirabel
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The City of Dust did not pause for the morning.

This was one of the things that distinguished the Mortal Coil from the higher heavens, where dawn carried ceremony, where the transition between night and day was marked by sect bells and cultivation rituals and the organized acknowledgment that a new period had begun.

Down here, the city simply continued, the night's activity bleeding into the morning's without a seam, the same streets carrying the same traffic with only the quality of the lig
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