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ment, trying to steady

ked, "Whe

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. "I don't know. Yet

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thought if I stayed near you, you'd die like the others.i

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away so you won't die like .

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for what is ours we will not give up,and nothing will ha

came at

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immediately.

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couple return

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bigger war coming, Amara. And y

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but Luca's final wor

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aid softly. "Who wa

I will find out. I swear to you, Ama

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