Take a good look at the place on your way out, I wanted to say. Etch it into your memory. You’ll long for the days when nothing much happened soon. Then again … They were humans, not children. Mortal, not weak. It was their world that was suffering, too, and as I’d told Agenor myself mere days ago, why shouldn’t they be given the chance to fix it with everyone else? So I straightened my back in the eager silence. I smiled, and this time it felt real, with a first fizzle of the excitement I read on so many of the faces around me. ‘Let’s go kill the bitch, then,’ I said. And another wave of
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