Chronologically speaking, Blaylock son of Rocke had known John Matthew for just over a year. But that was not a true reflection of the bromance. There were two timelines to people’s lives: the absolute and the perceived. The absolute was the universal day-and-night cycle that for them added up to something like three hundred and sixty-five. Then there was the way that time period had gone, the events, the deaths, the destruction, the training, the fighting. He figured all told . . . that pegged the two of them at about four hundred thousand years. And counting, he thought, looking over at his
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