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Chapter Sixty: Escape To Rockflower Part Two
After another five minutes in silence, Zeki’s voice said, “You can move yourself to sit, Mr. Roche. They’re gone.”
“Thank you.” I weaved around in search of him up here in the trees. “Where are you?”
“Promise me not to scream.”
I blinked. “Alright, I promise.” Something landed on my right knee. Moving my gaze to check, there was a spider that was standing on four legs, wearing the same clothes and top hat as… “Zeki, is that you?”
“It is I.” The spider bowed.
“You… you’re the spider god.” I remembered a character from a story he told back in Rockland. “You’re his brave.”
He bowed again. “Anansi’s Brave, the trickster spider god of stories.”
I gasped, “You’ve been following me this whole time?”
He chuckled, “Guilty as charged.”
“I thought you were leaving with the other guilds.”
“I was, but I smell a story the moment you left for Sweet Haven. I was also curious about how you are going to get there.” He cro
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