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the forest a
tonight, she
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the roya
them he
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ka
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na didn't argu
at whatever was happening was far
ough the forest, she looked ba
till wat
hing stran
lowered
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cognizes somet
er question, a bell rang fro
n
ic
third
guard
r's face
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ked towards E
rk was glowin
ed something that made
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looked direc
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that night, Elena reali
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