Chapter 12 · free to read
A truce. No bit, no format, no performance. Just a cafe and a person who likes coffee.
Eleven seconds. It used to take him none. Nothing had changed except everything.
He ordered four iced americanos in ninety minutes. He drank one and a half of them.
The power went at two in the afternoon on a clear day, on a block where nothing else lost a single light.
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