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"I heard from somebody else," Scroll answered after a short silence "The one who told me this is currently in Neverwinter, but he wasn't a resident of the Sixteenth Village"

"What do you mean?"

"You should ask him yourself" Scroll turned to the City Hall clerk responsible for the registration "Bring Watt here His ID number is 0024578, and he's a furnace worker He should be recycling slags in Zone 2 at the North Slope right now"

"Yes, Ms Scroll" The clerk left to carry out her order

Half an hour later, the clerk and a ruddy man showed up in the residential area

"I don't know hi their acquaintance

"What else do you have to say now?" Aziion How can you just randohter?" The bigno heed to Aziirl!"

The witch was stunned "The 'Tillan' you're talking about Is she ot her eyes Especially for the mole underneath the corner of your eye, it's identical to your mother's!" Watt cried "But you're much prettier than your mother Hold on, you don't remember irl when I left the village When I returned, you weren't there anyht? Tillan loved to call you names after beautiful flowers"

"That was just a nickname when I was little" The witch was embarrassed "My name is now Doris"

"I see Well, that's a nice nae, people talked a lot about you They all thought witches had abducted you, and"

As Watt raradually The big ruddy e next to the Sixteenth Village Based on the nae As the two villages were geographically close to each other, he had kept in touch with his neighbors As he envied his neighbors for their water source, he had traveled to Valencia to learn trench digging After he learned the skills, Watt had returned to his village and encouraged soers to help hie He had thus lived in the Sixteenth Village for quite a long time because of this project

"Are e?" Watt had apparently convinced Doris After Watt finally finished, she asked hastily, "Or they've coion with you?"

At this h

The sparks in the ruddy man's eyes seemed to fade out at that instant He replied in a sorrowful tone, "They didn't make it The second prince's ar's city, starving and thirsty, a huge plague broke out The nobles in the city shut us out, leaving us crying for help at the foot of the city wall A large nuers from the nearby lands had died due to the nobles' selfishness By the time His Majesty's rescue teams arrived, there were just a few that were still alive" He paused for a second and said, "Your fa them"

"No" Doris cupped her hand over her mouth She stood transfixed for a moment before she started to sob uncontrollably

"I'm sorry, child" Watt instantly panicked He wanted to comfort her but did not knohat to do In the end, he cairl and patted her on the head "Tillan called your naain before she passed away If she knew you were still alive and well, she would definitely be happy So don't cry anyhtly but cried even harder after that