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Chapter 19
GALINA POV
DAYS BLURRED INTO WEEKS, and for that duration, I was like a living corpse. In all my life, I have never felt so unnerved, so shaken and I didn’t who or what I was anymore.The VC had made it clear that I was something worth paying attention to, and that she and Bella had their scouts watching my every step. Jupitor who magically transformed into a giant dog said just the same thing but went in by saying that I, a normal human being who has been leading a pretty much mundane, low boring life, was somehow a divine, superior being that was going to bring redemption to the world. Like, WHAT THE HECK?I just… I couldn’t handle it!I had been ready to uncover all the hidden lies about this place but this, I couldn’t take it all in. And the fact that it seemed like everything was revolving around me just made everything worst. If the two divisions were actually a thing, why couldn't they exist as they did for more centuries without dragging me into all of the bedlam
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