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Chapter 8 - Nostalgia
Two Years Ago…
Alarick found a nymph on his garden.
Or so he thought, at first glance.
It had been a tough afternoon; his father hadn’t joined them at yet another hunt for a couple of ogres trespassing the forest ever since his mamkka disappeared a couple months back.
He was angry at the world and depressed.
They both were. But instead of locking himself in one of the rooms in the fortress like his father, he was out there, raising his sword and killing everything in his way.
They may be father and son and share the same blood, but right now, the both of them have different ways in coping up with the devastating loss.
His clothes were damp, there was mud in them, and he’d been circling around the fortress trying to find anything he could show his wrath to so it wasn’t too far off to say that stumbling acros
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