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75. Taken
The recovery team had arrived right on time for the mission aftercare that Dom, and Pietro needed, one more urgently than the other, and with them, King Evan, who was on top of all the recovery operations, or well, at least most of the planned ones, had arrived at the place where the mirror opened as well.
“Dom!” The King approached, “what happened? We saw you suddenly disappear, and then reappear again. Are you ok? Did things get too complicated inside?”
“Sort of. The place was making him go crazy… And his guilt followed him very closely. A few unexpected things happened, including that my recently unblocked feelings changed the way I handled the mirrors.”
“What? How do you mean?”
“Well, apparently now I have
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