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Firian
For a long time, Firian had known what happened to people who were kicked out of the Academy. They were too much of a liability. They had to be killed.
He ran for hours without seeing anyone. His hands numbed. He opened and closed them mechanically as he went. Normally so full, his mind was blank. Only confusion and disbelief flooded in. Muttering like an insane man, he finally slowed down and started pacing back and forth. It wasn’t possible. It wasn’t possible.
He had failed. That was it. He had failed at his one shot to be important. He had no love and no control. He had nothing.
He sucked air in through his nose and felt the nip of the cold wind. So what if Tanyu murdered him? It didn’t seem important. A hard lump rose in his throat and he swallowed frantically.
He was
