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My heart haher, until eventually the well beneath us was just a speck--and the gorgeous, lush landscape was visible

I strained e of reenery certainly wasn’t the landscape I would have i on

I would have expected a scorched realons saved their fire for attacks on eneons s, just caves bored into hills and mountains, si lakes in between the valleys, and acres of lush flowers

But I wasn’t taking inout toto use this advantage I’d stumbled into before it was too late

I didn’t know if they’d figure out that there was nothing auspicious about ht suddenly of Bella

"And where do you keep your enemies?" I asked, after he’d paused for a breath

He slowed and began flying in the opposite direction

He nodded tohat looked like a giant pit dug out in the center of a valley

Reaching it, he hovered directly over it

I found iant dirt pit

Its walls were steep, and high--it was dug perhaps a few hundred feet into the ground, too high for any ogre to climb out froroup of perhaps fifty ogres in there now

I wondered if they’d all been from the fresh catch today

"Please lower us further," I said

Charis did as I’d requested and lowered us

I asked hih for me to be able to make out the faces

Bella wasn’t there

In fact, I couldn’t see a single fere down there

Perhaps she’d been killed already

I’d hardly known her long, but I couldn’t help but feel morose

I’d wanted to see her live a life better than the one she’d been dealt, even though I wasn’t sure how I’d ever give it to her

I’d wanted a better fate for her than in the belly of soh hts

How about… back to the human realm? I was so tempted to just blurt it out, but I wasn’t sure if I was to be obeyed to such an extent