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like some cursed dream. One quick strike and it would've been

didn't

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me, she wasn't a princess. She w

ne who didn't flinch

much I wanted to

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e asks. "I

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teeth. "I

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nced her father. When they swore to wipe out the Ravelle line. I was

n wh

say, quieter now. "Like she wa

stops

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eone saw you, you ended up hunted by

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me, I won't