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    Some days feel like the end of the world.

    Ilia's been handling it better lately, this change in his life, but that doesn't make it easy. He's had to reshape the way he sees himself and the people around him, and sometimes it all feels too suffocating.

    After a day marked by explosive outbursts at all his friends, panic and emotional spirals, Ilia is left doing what he seems to spend more and more time doing these days: wondering if he's becoming someone he can no longer recognise. Wondering whether people will stay once they know the truth. Once he fights with them. Once he inevitably hurts them. Once months of hard-earned progress seem to disappear in hours.

    Mikhail has never been one to make him go through those fears alone, never one to leave him to retreat into himself without help, no matter how convinced Ilia is that he deserves to be.

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