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...

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cut throug

verified. Initiatin

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answers. But all I could do was nod, or will myself

es

ged. Welcome

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hit th

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s al

limbs didn't listen. My fingers were thinner than I reme

e hell

e fast now. T

car. I wasn't

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sh hell

ttle more than torn linen - dirty, soaked through. I hugged my

. I don't know why

atu

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45 | MP:

Intelligence: 11 | Vitalit

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weird combination of both. I reached out - t

was in

orld l

ination? Limbo? Or wors

Legs like noodles. My stom

something that looked like a city,

, dressed in everything from cloaks to armor. One man floated overhead in a

gi

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erstood. A guard in silver armor pushed a beggar into the

t belon

oman even pulled her child away from me like I was dis

'd crawled out

llapsed against a wall, breathing

asn't

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. Wherever

," I muttered, tryin

hought it couldn't get

meat,

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sing my hands, "I d

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r of us

t fierce-looking, standing beside a b

snapped, tossing something into the

and slunk off. One of them muttered some

here, trying

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k like a

I asked, v

soup. I didn't question it. I

ed look," she said.

er. "There've

" she said. "Four dead. One vani

ps. "What... i

s is Arinvale. Capital o

es danced, casting shadows that

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s, Elias. Don't worry. If you've survi

sleep t

since waking in this ma