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Friendships Birthed of Desperation
Oldwin stood before the man he was forced to call master. But that wasn’t quite right, to call it forced. He’d chosen to call him such, just as he’d chosen his banishment to the sky dungeon for what amounted to half a mortal man’s lifetime. Every choice he’d made had brought him to precisely this moment and would soon lead him to the one he’d done this, all of this, for.
The petulant child swimming in his raiment was making demands. Take me to my wives! I want to see them! Oldwin had perfected his magic over the many years of his life, honed it to precision, but there was no magic adequate for feigning fealty to this wretched creature. Every day he must prostrate himself before the sack of malformed bones was a day he emerged more victorious than th
