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Chapter 65: Madness
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Bodies burned black.
The flames continued their feast.
The sun was beginning its journey to the other end of Ayla when a soldier came running in a panicked haze. At first he seemed maddened, crazed from the heat of the sun, or perhaps some over-indulgence in some form of the soldiers' alcohol, a crime to deserve a good
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