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-Chapter Nine – When the Anchor Breathes+ <font 26px/inherit;;inherit;;inherit>Chapter 9 – When the Anchor Breathes</font>
  
 The fracture didn’t heal. The fracture didn’t heal.
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 For one terrifying instant, the three-way balance inside Ace tilted. For one terrifying instant, the three-way balance inside Ace tilted.
  
-The wound pushed: _You are a crack. Let me through._   +The wound pushed: _You are a crack. Let me through._ Violet pushed back: No. She’s mine. The Wellspring pressed: _You are a stone I lost._
-Violet pushed back: No. She’s mine.   +
-The Wellspring pressed: _You are a stone I lost._+
  
 Ace almost lost track of which “you” was which. Ace almost lost track of which “you” was which.
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 They weren’t copies of faces. They were archetypes. The kind of simplified expressions people drew when they didn’t have time for detail. They weren’t copies of faces. They were archetypes. The kind of simplified expressions people drew when they didn’t have time for detail.
  
-One smiling.   +One smiling. One blank. One screaming.
-One blank.   +
-One screaming.+
  
 Each oriented toward one of them. Each oriented toward one of them.
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 Not of seconds—they’d long since stopped matching subjective experience—but of breaths. Not of seconds—they’d long since stopped matching subjective experience—but of breaths.
  
-In. Out.   +In. Out. In. Out.
-In. Out.+
  
 She felt the moment they crossed back through the cavity’s edge. The pressure on her mind dropped from a clawing insistence to a general ache. The glow dimmed slightly. She felt the moment they crossed back through the cavity’s edge. The pressure on her mind dropped from a clawing insistence to a general ache. The glow dimmed slightly.
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 For now, that was enough. For now, that was enough.
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