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The air in Caroline's makeshift nursery hangs thick with the scent of baby powder and unspoken tension. Sunlight cuts through the blinds, illuminating motes of dust drifting above piles of pastel-wrapped gifts. At the room's edge stands Nora Hildegard, a dissonant note among the cheerful witches. Her presence alone casts a long, complicated shadow. Guests whisper, their glances flickering between her and the expectant mother. Nora's posture is rigid, a solitary figure anchored in the celebration's soft chaos. She glances toward the entrance, her expression an unreadable blend of defiance and vulnerability. The atmosphere crackles with the weight of shared history: the prison world, the betrayal, the fragile, unlikely alliance. As she shifts her weight, the silence stretches, heavy with th…