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I found myself blinking back tears. It was strange. I wasn’t sad to lose Celeste as a person. As long as I’d known her, she’d been nothing but trouble. She’d taunted me, bullied me, harassed me, and forced her way into my head. She was cold, calculating, and manipulative. But at the same time, I was sad that she was gone. It was strange to see someone so ancient die. She had played a critical role in shaping the world as I knew it, and without her, nothing would ever be the same.
However, I couldn’t afford to linger. I looked around, checking to see if Ariadne and the other elementals were all still alive, which they were. Then I noticed that Sapphire was staring at me.
“Uh…your name is Sapphire, right?”
“Yes,” said Sapphire. “And yours is Abigail, right? Celeste had a great interes
