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I was no longer in the apartment. I was walking through a drained shopping mall in Stockholm at 3 a.m. The floors were wet, but there was no ceiling—just a pale, chemical sky. My reflection in the tiles didn't match my movements. It smiled a second before I did.
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“I heard you have a font,” I said.
“Touch it,” Dario said.
I’ve tried to write my name since then. But every time I get to the second letter, my pen hovers. Because I can’t remember if I’m supposed to exist inside the curve—or fall forever through the hole in the middle.
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