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Louder, For Your Father
Oldwin no longer wore the harrowed mantle of a man who'd spent the better part of a century in a prison. His countenance unsettled Eoghan just the same. Eoghan decided if he did nothing else, he would need to learn to hide this from the old man. He also needed to stop thinking of him as an old man, for this was an increasingly confusing moniker that told very little of the true story of the creature. Oldwin looked no older than forty, even if he had, so they said, lived the equivalent of many lifetimes. Eoghan didn’t want to believe this could be true, for if it was, there were implications far beyond his reasoning. But he couldn’t deny the subtleties about Oldwin that stirred thoughts of a time long before. His manner of speaking. That, though he didn’t actual
