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21. Speak.
"Yeomorah. Come fourth. You have something that belongs to me. I will have it back." Nothing but silence, still. I was growing impatient, losing what tact I was naturally given. I scraped the wooden floor below me with extended claws.
"Who are you to call me?" The deep creaky voice of Yeomorah drowned the whines that I heard earlier.
"I am Noxodius. You-"
"Rhetorical. I don't care who you are. You are worthless. What do you think that you need from me?" I could detect the sneer in his voice.
"You have my Seraphine. I only want her b
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