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Miri sat in the backseat of Earl’s sedan as he rushed down the highway leading into Magic Hope City.
Her clothes had been caked in sweat, but they were dry now and she wanted to get out of them. She was grateful to be back in the city for a shower.
The crew had just discovered hundreds of dead Magic Eaters. They had been piled into the water, stacked on top of each other.
At least what was left of them.
Days earlier, Miri had watched them explode after eating magic.
But their shells remained.
Magic Eaters weren’t known to self-drown. They could swim quite well because of their tentacled legs.
To have so many of them dead in one place...To the untrained eye, it definitely smelled like foul play.
She left Laner and Jasmine as they studied the dead bodies. They had lined them up fo
