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Making a Friend

Concordia, Nine Hundred and Forty Five Years Before

Thaelen heard her follow, her footfalls clumsy through the undergrowth of the forest floor, the noise silencing the wildlife who shared the trees with them. Although he knew that her survival was more assured in his company, she was a complication that he didn’t want to deal with. She had already stabbed him in the stomach in a moment of unexpected treachery. He would be unable to sleep until he delivered her to her destination, or risk that she tried to kill him again.

“Why do you have daggers and a bow, if you do not need them?” She asked as they wound their way between the trees. “You did not use a weapon with the soldiers…”

“I had the element of surprise today,” he replied as they reached the small campsite where he had been staying on the bank of a fresh-water creek that ran towards the beach. He lifted off his leather tunic and laid it on a rock, hissing in a breath as it stretched his barely-repaired stomach wound. He knelt by
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Author Girl
Oh, poor Talen must have been so hard for him to go back to the special place he had with Gera!! That they enjoy so very much!! I'm glad he has a friend, but why do I feel uneasy and even a little apprehensive about Ettel? Is she perhaps his third child, and this is a repeat of Megs situation : o
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Leona
Thank you for this chapter. loved it
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