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Monday night. The back stairs, past eleven.
The house took an hour to finish its noises. Radiators first, then the fridge's shudder, then the long slow cracking of old wood cooling floor by floor, and Maya sat on the bed with her shoes still on and her phone charging to full, waiting it all out.
She used the hour the way she used it every night. She opened the thread that never moved and read the last message in it, almost seventeen months old now, the message she could have recited into a mirror in her sleep.
Don't look for me. It's better. I mean it, Maya. Let me go.
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