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Earl Damon and Art walked slowly back to Baron Edgurd’s suite. Slowly, because both of their minds were whirling with thoughts of the future, and what Art should do next. Art stopped in a quiet corridor, and told the Earl, “It’s my responsibility. If I am to face him and stop him, I shouldn’t wait until he’s disposed of Queen Faria, and then gone on a killing rampage. I need to be there. He trained me in the hope that I could stop him from devastating whole countries when he succumbed to the power madness. Now that he has, I can’t let him randomly kill people by letting him come to me. I need to go and stop him in Geron City. or wherever their confrontation is going to be.”
Earl Damon leaned against a tapestry. “That’s a brave decision. You’ve never been to Jeerea, have you?” Art shoo
