She pressed her hands over her ears, but it didn't speak through sound. It spoke through absence. She suddenly couldn't remember her mother’s face. Then her own reflection. Then the way home.
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But something remained — a kernel of fury, unnamed. She walked into the forest with a kitchen knife, not knowing why. The tomikovore unspooled from the dark, grinning with her stolen childhood.
She pressed her hands over her ears, but it didn't speak through sound. It spoke through absence. She suddenly couldn't remember her mother’s face. Then her own reflection. Then the way home.
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But something remained — a kernel of fury, unnamed. She walked into the forest with a kitchen knife, not knowing why. The tomikovore unspooled from the dark, grinning with her stolen childhood. She pressed her hands over her ears, but