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"Lower your sword, Alex," Kael said, his voice hard despite barely being able to stand. "She's with me, that's all you need to know."
"That's exactly the problem," Alex shot back, keeping his blade pointed at my chest."she's with you, she's been with you this whole time and look what's happened, villages burned, Hollow Ones multiplying, chaos spreading like wildfire."
"That's not her fault," Kael said.
"Isn't it?" Alex's eyes never left mine. "Three villages lost in the past month, all of them on her path, all of them infected after she passed through, how is that not her fault?"
I wanted to argue but he wasn't wrong. Everywhere I went, death followed. I'd burned that village myself just days ago, watched my own hands set the fires while Seraphina laughed in my head.
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