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• NIKOLAI;
• Cassandra has been happy these past few days. After the street food night, where she started talking again, she has been active in conversation, laughing at jokes, crying at movie nights—basically enjoying every mundane thing.
• We had a chess match this afternoon, and she is so good at it. If I wasn’t practically the best at everything, I would have cowardly surrendered. We were still deep in thought about each other's next moves, predicting every good and bad play. It was fun until one of my men came in with that look that says "emergency."