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Chapter 22: The Man Between Outcomes
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Sael did not wake up. He reassembled.

Awareness returned in layers, sound first, then weight, then the vague idea of having a body. The world did not snap into focus. It eased itself around him like a cautious animal.

Wind moved through something that might have been grass. Or fabric. Or memory. He sat up, or performed an action that resulted in him being upright, and waited for pain.

None came.

Instead, there was a strange elasticity to him. When he inhaled, the air did not simply enter his lu
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