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Counterplot

ผู้เขียน: Harriet Ifeanyi
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"According to what Ivone told me, they should plan to attack somewhere around here."

Triston, Jaxon, Revin and Xaren gathered in an open room on the ground floor of the castle. The room had a round table fixed to its center with the chairs pushed all the way to the walls. On one side of the room was arranged fully armoured statues, about twelve of them, and on the other side were piles and piles of broken chairs and other broken things.

The room had only two windows and both were on one side of the wall, positioned on either side of what should have been a door but was only now a huge rectangular gap in the wall. Hinges were still fastened to the wall, but it would seem that the doors were never put in place or they had fallen away and were never replaced.

The open room overlooked the spacious courtyard and despite how open it was, it made it the perfect place to hold a meeting like the one they were having now, all the while having their attention on the outside to observe what was
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