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Despite everything, I felt od-wannabe, and I didn’t have a ht’ve been friends

When his laughter died down, he said, "Back in the day, ould’ve reat reality TV show The Sol and Empress Show"

"The shit show," I otten top billing

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Day 392 AF

"Drive faster!" I told Sol, all but bouncing in the truck seat Froe, I’d spied Fort Arcana’s outline up on the windy bluff

I was concerned about the lack of lights, but one dark for cover

Being this near the fort made me feel closer to Jack Exciteers over the ribbon in ood look at the fort, his lips thinned with disgust "Pedazo de mierda What is this piece-of-shit place?"

I had"This is a place where people drea a better life While you were holed up in your coliseu and scrapping for everything they got"

"I-I’lare "You’re like the Hermit Card--you crawled into a ready- back my fury, I coe of the minefield, a rutted trail meandered this way and that Tire tracks As if from a mass retreat "Follow those ruts Carefully There arethe trail As the truck closed in on the fort’s outer wall, we passed chunks of soe one with frizzy black fur "Oh, my God" Cyclops Or half of hi?"

Ilike that"

Tracks and furrows led away froed itself from its severed hindquarters Why was his pelt riddled with bullet holes?

Who would’ve shot hih a favorite of mine, he’d reician had healed enough to make the journey

I re as Lark lived Cyclops could be holed up in the neighboring rock forest, regenerating He ht even pick up my scent, and then Lark would know I’d survived

I told Sol, "Drive up to the entrance and park"

As we neared the gates, I replayed h the proud All the arendary Hunter, as he’d been known They’d eneral So many of those men had died