The 9th Continent: Eyes of Horus

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rinning from ear to ear. "Look at you now. Where are the haters? Where are they?" He screamed ever louder but garnered little to no attention in the dwindle of the cold night's seductive process. "Thank you God, thank you Dad", he quickly reiterated

f the empty road for a second and reaching for his phone. As soon as he got his fingertips to it, he dragged the phone closer and just then, the alarming honk of an approaching beverage truck roared in his direction, jol

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was still ringing, but was now somewhere around his accelerator or brakes. His coarse hands finally etvhing across the screen of the phone, he picked it

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the officer's face, the information on it, and the emot

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