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“You didn’t ask me.”
“Ask you what?”
“How it feels.”
“How what feels, Alice?”
“When dead people start talking to me. You didn’t ask me what it feels like.”
My mouth floods with the taste of hot metal. Fear, polluting me.
“What does it feel like?” I ask her quietly and she looks right at me.
“Like biting into ice,” she says.
— Feb 23, 2026 10:11AM
“Ask you what?”
“How it feels.”
“How what feels, Alice?”
“When dead people start talking to me. You didn’t ask me what it feels like.”
My mouth floods with the taste of hot metal. Fear, polluting me.
“What does it feel like?” I ask her quietly and she looks right at me.
“Like biting into ice,” she says.
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