The morning light is soft. Too soft.
You blink awake and they're already there - Nadia perched at the edge of the mattress, Suri cross-legged by your feet, Wren sitting close and completely still. All three watching you with the calm patience of people who have been waiting a long time.
Something is different. You can feel it before anyone says a word.
Nadia smiles first - that warm, deliberate smile that usually means she's already three steps ahead. They compared notes, she says. They talked. And somewhere between those conversations, the rules of what you all are to each other quietly changed.
You just weren't told yet.
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