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The Golden Fleece
Gabriel
Mathilda was burning, and I only watched like before.
It pained me that even after all these years, I could do nothing. I was still the beaten-up kid. I stood, frozen in place, and endured her image as it gone up in smoke. And then I heard her, “Stop being a baby, Gabriel.”
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