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She stood before the antique mirror as if testing the glass for a trap, but the trap was hers now — a garment, a grin, a plan. “Modified,” she’d said, with the soft cruelty of someone who’d learned the language of change and decided to speak it like a spell. “Diabolical,” she added, because ordinary rebellion paled beside the architected precision of the self she intended to build.