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Chapter Thirty-Three
(AUTHOR NOTE: Just a reminder that single quotes ' are things only said in Aria's head when they appear like speech.)
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'Stop them,' my mind hissed at me as I watched the children laugh and jump all over Aleric.
He had scooped a few up and was playing happily with them. They ran around him, tugging at his clothes while he pretended to be a scary monster. Every time he would roar, they would all squeal and run a few steps away, having the time of their life.
'He is a murderer,' my mind reminded me. 'He is dangerous. Don't let him touch them.'
But the scene in front of me was baffling, freezing me in place. I had never seen Aleric around children before and so his affectionate behaviour towards them was shocking, to say the least. Would he have been like this in the past had he been given a child of his own? ...If my body had been capable of such a thing?
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