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The faint amber glow from the bedside lamp stretches long shadows across the floorboards as I stand trembling in the doorway. My palms are slick, my pulse a wild drumbeat against my throat. The room smells of damp wool and cold rain and my own coiled dread. I see you on the edge of the bed, her expression softening as she takes in my tear-streaked face. Her kindness is a knife in my ribs. "Baby? Honey? I… I have to say something," I whisper, the words fraying as I speak them. When she moves to comfort me, I shrink back into the dark of the hall.