Patricia Wilson
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Alice was splayed out in the bath, leaning against the edge as she splashed the water on her face. Cold. Each drop felt like ice as they slid down her face, some of them desperately clinging to her hair. She could see her breath every time she exhaled, the chill slowly seeping to her core. "So, can I now ask about what went down?" Teresa spoke up from behind Alice, tending to her hair. Doing so with cold water was a new experience but water was water so the job remained unchanged. Wanting an ice bath was…-
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Alice’s mind sputtered. It was like a candle placed in front of an open window during a windy night, she couldn’t even claim that her thoughts were flickering. No, everything simply stopped dead in its tracks after Gabriel spoke. It was like he took a hammer to her head, she could feel her skull ringing as the tingling resonated down her spine and throughout her entire body. Her hands simply froze dumbly, Nergal’s tendrils still squished between her fingers. Her body was as frozen as her hands so…
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With a direct order from the boss, the Night Pack quickly got to work. The main target was the Eye of Rostam, but he also said that something of equal value was fine so they had to categorise the various rings that would fit that category. They also had to locate them, discern whether or not buying them legally was an option, and how to utilise them cleanly in public should they need to acquire them through more dubious means. The underworld was getting noisy, and if the various parties weren’t careful…
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As one could only expect, with how Alice was acting it was inevitable for someone to get annoyed and impatient. And in this case, that person ended up being Marion, shooting Alice a sharp glare. "Alice De Vritara, you will show proper respect in front of the head of the family!" Of her two remaining half-siblings, Marion was the most reasonable one. She rarely moved for her own interest and placed the duchy before herself, her own emotions and desires were simply secondary. But Alice wasn’t being…
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"Are you planning on following me the entire way? I’m sure your brothers miss you." Gabriel cast an askance glance at Teresa, who was still following him despite the fact that they had already passed her room. This would be the longest she had ever been away from her three brothers so they would inevitably miss each other. "You’re going to enter your room and unpack your luggage with your hands like that? It’ll just be a few more minutes at most, it won’t make much of a difference." Teresa…
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"Almost there…" Alice’s voice was a barely audible whisper, so close that her hot breath almost hit Gabriel’s ear. There was plenty of space on the other bench in the carriage, but for the last two days she had been stuck next to him. A nightmare, a horrible one at that. Gabriel knew the feeling so he didn’t comment on it. As for why her voice was so close, it was because she was currently leaning over him while looking out the window, seemingly ignoring the fact that there was another window…
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When Alice looked around, all she saw was fire. It rose all around her, crimson tongues reaching for the sky as they swallowed everything else. She could feel them on her skin, each fluttering of the wind bringing with it heat and ash that brushed against her. It was strange. She felt the heat, the wind, even the thumping inn her chest, but she still felt as if she wasn’t experiencing it with her own body. It felt distant, disconnected. And yet… She felt it. "HAHAHAHA!" Laughter drowned out even the…
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Perhaps as was to be expected, the Barong estate became quite tumultuous once Gabriel and the others returned. Arioch knew that there was no point in trying to hide the truth from people, he would have to report everything to the Imperial Family. The existence of the claw would serve as an excellent excuse to hand out titles to the people they wanted to keep close so the citizens would find out sooner or later. But perhaps as was to be expected, they were more shocked by the corpses that had been brought…
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The hours quickly passed as the night deepened, the only sound within the camp coming from either the knights-in-training trudging about as they patrolled or the crackling of the campfires that provided them with a bit of light and heat. Gabriel was still seated in front of the corpses, the cold wasn’t really affecting him much, it may be another side effect of having used Akasha on that demon. Crrr… The crunching of snow he occasionally heard got closer as someone approached him. He could roughly…
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Gabriel felt woozy as he held on to Alice. The ache kept creeping up on him, running along his bones like maggots digging in to reach his marrow. Thanks to that, he wasn’t quite conscious as she helped him get back to the others, it felt like he blinked and then they had simply arrived. "You’re back." Arioch’s voice greeted them when they returned to the battlefield. Caine was throwing back some pills so his complexion was already getting better, while the remaining knights had already moved the…
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