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2021-11-11 08:19:24On the last day of the midterm exam, Hera was to wake staring at the canopy of her bed, smiling a little as she felt for her body, realizing almost at once that she’s still inside Trina. She sat upright, chuckling when she saw the same frames and sticky notes on the stickered wall.
Somehow, she felt bad because this would mean she wouldn’t be able to take the exam. She knew, though, that the League would have to consider her, for she was confined in the Hospital Wing. Although she’s weirded by the idea that her own body was in a state of comma, yet she’s wide awake here in Trina’s body, she couldn’t help being indifferent with it, especially when this was the very thing she wanted from the start: escaping the accursed fate her body was born with.
She glanced in the mirror for a second or two, pursing her lips.
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