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mind startled him, snap

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se he had already figured Axel was goi

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ed. He didn't h

othing, glancing over her one more time, her ha

cient magic. "Velanth

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h with him, soaring into th

the realm o

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, stretching and rolling her butter finge

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chamber, vast

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y this time, slower, steadie

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tic colors, clean, unruffled-each one screaming

such luxury before, wasn't sure

in this haunting beauty, her

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gure out where she was.

to check in on their 'h

hed and lo

slightly as she pushed them open, revealing a long eerie ha

ss windows, splattering patterns of cri

idor was

ly the distant echo of her own

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herself. Horrors are

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