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069: Speak Your Piece

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[Ona]

Atremi’s gray eyes look sincere as he sits there chained to my bed, his face turned up towards me like he was still my loyal champion, and not the deceiving snake his recent actions have revealed him to be. I wish I could still trust him, and yet, in all honesty, even without what had happened to Orion and Primus, I’d have been angry seeing him here, sitting possessively next to my oldest daughter.

Our history is long and deep. We’ve saved one another countless times on the battlefield, a
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