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Chapter 62: Flora Is Shown the South Wing
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Flora took a deep breath as she recalled that frightening night at her public high school in Cardena. It was curious that she felt the same feeling standing there in the corridor of a luxurious mansion on an island in the middle of the ocean when her public school’s dilapidated facilities and peeling wall paint were a far cry from her present location. It felt surreal that she stood once again in a dark corridor and needed to conquer her own fears once more, but this time, without her best friend Perlita to accompany her and support her.Still, her experience that night in high school taught her valuable lessons that she would often get back to whenever she felt helpless and afraid of what could be lurking in the shadows. She started to see her life as full of unexpected surprises that were sometimes heartbreaking, but in some other times full of happiness. Nadi was one of those experiences when Flora was full of foreboding at what the future would bring. She knew that taking care of
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