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h lace and ghosts, dressed in a gown stitched

sugar. But the real power was hidden under the folds -

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words. Just the weapon wrappe

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ake cruelty

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warning you. You want to survive this? Don't try to o

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. A string quartet playing something soft and haun

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d black suit, his expression carved from stone. H

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the words droned on

and to

ne side. Morettis on the other. No one

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t of love. Not out of need. But because this is wh

ce was su

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aight ahead,

remember

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ching instinctively for my thigh,

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ts ducked. The priest hit the floor. The

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t, I realized som

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waved it off, muttering something about "legality by c

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t felt like

er armed guard, hand o

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pt the

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