At that exact moment, the power in Kaelen's apartment flickered. The monitor died, plunging the room into pitch blackness. In the silence that followed, his phone, sitting face-down on the desk, began to vibrate.
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His e-reader attempted to parse the file, stalled at 43%, and then forced itself open. There was no cover art. No title page. No copyright notice. There was only a single page of text, justified perfectly, with no paragraph breaks. At that exact moment, the power in Kaelen's