Episode 5: The Eclipse Awakens(Part 1)
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The Eclipse Awakens
Part 1
The night was no longer peaceful.
It was breaking.
And Silvercrest was breaking with it.
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The collision between Damien Blackwood and Lucian Nightfang sent another shockwave through the ruined bookstore.
Concrete exploded.
Glass rained from nearby buildings.
Car alarms screamed throughout the street.
People several blocks away rushed to their windows.
Others recorded videos.
None of them understood what they were witnessing.
Because humans were never meant to see monsters wage war.
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Damien slammed into a wall.
The entire building shook.
Books flew through the air.
A bookshelf collapsed.
Felix barely avoided getting crushed.
He dove behind a counter.
“Okay!”
CRASH!
“Okay!”
BOOM!
“Okay!”
Another explosion.
“I officially resign from being Damien’s friend!”
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Nobody heard him.
Because Lucian was already moving.
The Alpha Prince crossed the room faster than human eyes could follow.
His fist crashed toward Damien.
Damien vanished.
The punch struck the wall instead.
The entire side of the bookstore exploded outward.
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Across the street…
A woman walking her dog stopped.
The dog stopped.
Both stared.
The dog looked at the woman.
The woman looked at the dog.
Then both silently turned around and left.
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Inside the bookstore…
Lucian growled.
His golden eyes burned like sunlight.
His wolf instincts were raging.
Every fiber of his being wanted to destroy the vampire standing before him.
Not because Damien was his enemy.
Not because Damien was Dracula’s son.
But because Aurora looked at Damien differently.
And Lucian hated it.
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Meanwhile…
Damien wiped blood from his lip.
A rare sight.
Very rare.
Lucian had actually managed to hurt him.
That alone spoke volumes.
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“You should leave,” Damien said calmly.
Lucian laughed.
The sound was dangerous.
Mocking.
Cold.
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“Leave?”
He stepped forward.
“You’re hiding behind a bookstore.”
Another step.
“Playing human.”
Another.
“Pretending you’re ordinary.”
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Damien’s crimson eyes narrowed.
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Lucian smiled.
“But no matter how hard you pretend…”
The Alpha’s claws emerged.
“You’ll always be a monster.”
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For a brief second…
Something changed inside Damien.
Something ancient.
Something dark.
Something terrifying.
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Even the wolves felt it.
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The temperature dropped instantly.
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And for the first time…
Lucian stopped smiling.
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Sterling Manor
Aurora was running.
Fast.
Faster than she had ever run before.
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After Dracula disappeared from her balcony, she had stolen one of her mother’s sports cars.
Her bodyguards tried stopping her.
She ignored them.
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Her instincts told her something terrible was happening.
Something connected to Damien.
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And somehow…
Her instincts were never wrong.
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The city lights blurred around her.
The engine roared.
Rain began falling.
Thunder echoed overhead.
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She gripped the steering wheel.
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“Please be okay.”
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Elsewhere…
Far beneath the earth…
Deep below Silvercrest…
Something moved.
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A giant black chamber sat hidden beneath ancient ruins.
No human knew it existed.
No vampire knew it existed.
No werewolf knew it existed.
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Chains covered the walls.
Ancient symbols glowed faintly.
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At the center stood a massive stone prison.
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Crack.
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A tiny fracture appeared.
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Crack.
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Another.
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Then…
A voice.
Ancient.
Malevolent.
Hungry.
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“She’s awake…”
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The darkness itself seemed to breathe.
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“After all these centuries…”
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The voice laughed.
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And the sound echoed across dimensions.
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Lord Noctis was beginning to wake.
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The Witch’s Warning
Morgana Vale stood atop a cliff overlooking the city.
The wind whipped through her silver hair.
Magic swirled around her fingertips.
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Below her…
Silvercrest glowed beneath the storm.
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Above her…
The moon turned red.
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Morgana’s eyes widened.
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“No…”
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That wasn’t possible.
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The Blood Moon shouldn’t appear for another decade.
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Yet there it was.
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A sign.
A warning.
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The prophecy was accelerating.
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Aurora’s awakening had already begun.
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Blackwood Books
The fight reached another level.
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Lucian transformed first.
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Bones cracked.
Muscles expanded.
Golden fur erupted across his body.
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Within seconds…
A giant wolf stood where the Alpha Prince had been.
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The creature towered over everyone.
Its eyes glowed like molten gold.
Its claws could rip steel apart.
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Felix looked up.
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Then immediately looked away.
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“Nope.”
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The wolf roared.
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The entire building trembled.
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Then it charged.
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Damien didn’t move.
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Didn’t blink.
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Didn’t react.
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Until the very last second.
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Suddenly…
His eyes became completely red.
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Pure crimson.
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His fangs extended.
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Dark shadows exploded around him.
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And for the first time…
Lucian realized something.
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Damien had been holding back.
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The vampire prince caught the giant wolf by the throat.
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One hand.
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Just one hand.
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Lucian’s eyes widened.
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Then Damien threw him through three buildings.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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The street erupted.
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Concrete shattered.
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Streetlights collapsed.
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Cars flipped.
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People screamed.
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Felix slowly peeked over the counter.
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Then immediately ducked again.
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“Yeah.”
Pause.
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“I’m definitely traumatized.”
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Dracula Arrives
The sky suddenly darkened.
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Every vampire froze.
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Every werewolf froze.
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Even Damien froze.
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Because they all recognized that presence.
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The King.
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Dracula appeared atop a ruined building.
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His black coat fluttered behind him.
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Lightning illuminated his face.
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His crimson eyes surveyed the battlefield.
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Silence followed.
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Pure silence.
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The wolves lowered their heads instinctively.
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The vampires stepped back respectfully.
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Power radiated from him.
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Not flashy power.
Not loud power.
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The kind of power that didn’t need to prove itself.
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The kind of power that had survived empires.
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Lucian slowly returned to human form.
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His expression hardened.
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“Dracula.”
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The vampire king smiled.
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“Lucian.”
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The greeting sounded polite.
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Yet everyone felt the hatred underneath.
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Thousands of years of hatred.
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Aurora Arrives
Aurora’s car skidded to a stop.
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She jumped out.
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And froze.
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The entire street looked like a war zone.
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Buildings destroyed.
Cars overturned.
Glass everywhere.
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At the center stood Damien.
Lucian.
And Dracula.
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Three supernatural kings.
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And somehow…
The moment Aurora appeared…
Everything changed.
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The wind stopped.
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The rain slowed.
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The world itself seemed to pause.
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Because all three men looked at her.
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Only her.
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Not the battlefield.
Not their enemies.
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Aurora.
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The vampire prince.
The werewolf prince.
The vampire king.
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All watching her.
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And none of them noticed the glow beginning to form beneath her skin.
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A faint silver light.
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Soft.
Beautiful.
Ancient.
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Morgana appeared on a nearby rooftop.
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Her eyes widened.
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“It’s starting…”
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The Awakening
Aurora stepped forward.
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“What are you doing?!”
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Nobody answered.
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Instead…
The silver light intensified.
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Aurora stopped walking.
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A strange sensation spread through her body.
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Warm.
Powerful.
Unfamiliar.
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She grabbed her chest.
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Pain exploded through her veins.
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“Aurora!”
Damien moved first.
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Lucian moved second.
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Both rushed toward her.
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Too late.
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The silver light erupted.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
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A wave of energy exploded outward.
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Everyone was thrown backward.
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Damien crashed into a building.
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Lucian slammed into the street.
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Even Dracula was forced back.
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The entire city shook.
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Windows shattered for miles.
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Streetlights burst.
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The clouds above split apart.
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And in the center of it all…
Aurora floated above the ground.
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Silver light surrounded her.
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Ancient symbols appeared around her body.
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The moon overhead glowed brighter.
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For a moment…
She looked less like a human.
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And more like a queen.
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An ancient queen.
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A forgotten queen.
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A queen whose bloodline had vanished long ago.
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Dracula stared.
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Lucian stared.
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Damien stared.
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None of them understood.
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But one person did.
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Morgana.
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The witch slowly whispered words she had feared for centuries.
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“The Eclipse Princess…”
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And deep beneath Silvercrest…
The crack in Lord Noctis’s prison widened.
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The First Vampire opened one eye.
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And smiled.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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