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posture radiating a contempt so profound it
pack resources we just squandered
oat too raw and swo
word a stone thrown at me. "You bring nothing
useless, well
d the moon. The pack had forced me to abandon my canvases for ledgers on territory management, desperate
your death could somehow restore what was lost, I would not lift a finger to stop it." He glanced toward the window, his jaw se
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closing around the silver I
with a single
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it sideways. It crashed to the floor between us with a loud clang, a momentary obstacn and ran from the roo
doing?" a young O
in front of Julian
er?" the nurse scolded my brother
th rage, and he shoved the
eeing shape down the s
the heavy steel door to th
ed my hair across my
edge of the gra
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roared in
fall was brutally cut short-a jarring screech of metal on metal as m
in the air as my legs and
d metal grid, co
who was on the platf
his hands trembling as he gently crad
warm jacket and wrapped it
spill down my cheeks. I had endured so much from my ow
kly winched back towa
imbed out
his grip careless
, and yanked my head back, ignoring my cry of
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