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Zaviana glanced behind her one last time at the hidden city of Saefron. She’d said goodbye to Naveen first thing in the morning before daybreak. Zaviana couldn’t understand it, but she felt a connection with the woman. She wondered if it had to do with her extra sense, or something else. Zaviana was afraid to leave Saefron, afraid it wouldn’t be there when she came back. Yet, somehow, she felt with Naveen staying behind, it was under good hands.
She traveled with a force of twenty, twelve men and eight women. Zaviana was glad to see women in the resistance army. When she was a prisoner in the Dragonia Empire, all she saw were men warriors. Women were nothing but wives and slaves. Perhaps if the resistance won, women would have a proper place in society.
Zaviana lingered for a moment,
