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2024-10-29 19:42:56“What is it that connects the future to the past, and the past to the future? If it happens that one of us would be able to discover it, then the world would be much easier for humans to live in.”
CHAPTER LXXXIV: A Ride With the Atondês; Way Back to the Good Old Castle
WE DID NOT wait for the stars to align. Right at the first crack of dawn the next morning, we started with finding the horses, only to discover that Dominic had kept them all together in a cage — firm and ready. “You’re going to ride the Atondês instead.”
We blinked, and waited. But it seemed as though he had no intentions of getting back what he said. “What?”
“They shall carry you to the borders. On their backs. It will save you
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