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2024-10-29 19:42:56Hana skipped as they walked, humming a tone that Bayo was sure he never heard before.
It was somewhere between erie and soothing. But just as soon as he listens to it, he takes his mind off it.
Currently, he is in his Spirit Prime Wolf form because Ronke had advised that he be in that form, at least to keep appearances as some of the contestants were recognizable by the varying creatures from a golden brown blend of a lion and goat to a tortoise shelled beetle and many others beasts that were being walked by their hosts. A show of might, Hana had termed it, saying that they had to do the same.
This time however, Ronke demanded for the clothes, before he switched forms, right there at the pavilion of the Amphitheatre. Initially, he was worried that someone would see him but there was really not as much a reason to be worried. The audience, the spectators who had come to watch the opening night already got their feet and started the bustling as they ea
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