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here tonight. I don't care. I'll slee

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years, something rises beneath Eluwon.

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neatly folded in a cloth

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scared when Victor disappeared? When that scratch showed up next to Tola's bed?

's gone," Ama

looked

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a temple. Burned candles melted into the stone.

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as an altar..

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