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The building smelled of rot and feces. George could smell the rodents nesting in the walls and piles of debris that littered the floor of the warehouse. He glanced at the two Bone Gnawers that stood nearby almost at attention. Could they smell the animal stink that permeated the place? The moldy wet smell of animal fur? George wondered how well their almost nonexistent noses worked.
He knew the smell was the reason Aesa wanted to meet him here at this old warehouse. George could tell it had been a slaughterhouse in the past. It was moldy and stank of rot, but it also had the musky smell of animals. And that’s why she had chosen this place. To remind him he was no better than her animal. The Alfr Fey always thought themselves better than everyone, within the Pale or in the mor
