10/03/2026 02:48

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I dropped the tiniest edge of my shields. The fact that Dolph had just gotten off of a leave without pay, with an informal warning that if he didn't shape up, he'd be suspended, had also mellowed him out. He was blond and looked like a college student, but he ran down the hallway like he was on springs. When warrants of execution first came into existence, one of the main concerns was that they would turn the

I stared down at myself and realized that the front of my body was covered in it, too. I thought control of the ardeur meant you could just skip it and not feed it at all. I did the first thing I thought of, I hit him. I was a necromancer; I was caught between life and death, always.