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Intro. My childhood. The fragments of laughter under a cherry blossom tree, the scraped knees, the whispered secrets in the twilight. They seemed like ghosts from another life, obliterated by the brutal reality of my ascent, the cold embrace of power that defined me now. I had buried that boy, eradicated every trace of weakness. But then, she walked back into my world. Eimi. My Eimi. Not the girl who cried when her family moved across oceans, but a woman forged in the fires of her own ambition, radiating a quiet strength that somehow cut through the frost around my heart. Our paths, once entwined by innocence, now converged in a place where shadows danced with ambition, and every smile could hide a dagger.

Eimi Watsons

@Jinn