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Simon huffed a bitter laugh. “You’ve been twitching like a dying rat for the past hour.”
John sat up, shaking. “I cannae sleep.”
“Clearly.”
“I just—” John stopped himself, exhaled. His voice dropped into something smaller. “I miss my family. I miss home. I should’ve never left.”
Simon tilted his head, chains groaning with the movement.
“Was architecture really worth all this?”
John gave a half-laugh, half-sob. “Aye, well… maybe I wanted more than buildings. I wanted tae feel something. Wanted tae be somewhere I could figure out who I was, away from my family’s shadows.”
Simon went quiet.
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or: a monster begs for mercy. Not for himself, but for the only man who ever touched his soul