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Does the gao "For what it’s worth, thank you for the last two tilad you didn’t follow Deveaux into the flae him"

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I didn’t realize until later how unintentionally cruelelse in my life?

Where’s your head at, Evie?

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Day 425 AF

I woke to htmare about Jack Tears flowed downfroazing around with confusion Where was I?

My glyphs litup half of the bed He must’ve nosed his way in here

He blinked his eye at onna do?

I lay on his neck and scratched his scarred ears until the roosters began to crohenever they thought it should be dawn) Then I rose and took a shower

Under the stea inforward

Now that I’d warned Aric and Lark about Gran, I would takeaway at her beliefs day by day--while gleaning as ht not agree with her about e about my enemies

Dressed in a sweater and jeans, I let Cyclops out, then knocked on Gran’s door No answer Figuring she must still be asleep, I headed to the tower The stairs were a s, but I azed out past the castle’s slate roof into the drizzly darkness The river at the base of the ht

I turned back to the roo the sunny landscapes I’d painted on the walls This toas a time capsule in itself

I sat on the bed and fired up the laptop--one present aiven me I’d stored my zip-drive’s worth of family photos on it Some part of me must have always knoould return to the castle of lost ti on the back of the door Aric had found the for him had been pure pleasure, and each day I’d fallen for him more I’d drea Jack

Forcing h pictures onhad been so shockingly green This was how Jack had envisioned Acadiana I patted my jeans pocket, where I kept the ribbon--

My eyes ide I didn’t have a single picture of hi journals and a pencil set I hadn’t sketchedhadover the paper, I drew Jack as he’d looked after taking command of the Azey South army He’d ridden into Fort Arcana with his expression so heartbreakingly proud He’d liked being a leader, and he’d been good at it I would’ve said he’d been born for it, but his life had been cut too short