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103: War II

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ANNORA

It was beginning to add up: why everything was happening. How could I have been so foolish? I asked myself this and more questions over and over again, standing on my feet as I paced the space with a worried look on my face.

Didn't it make sense now?

It was in the middle of the night when I woke up from a dream of thoughts, asking myself what happened and how I could have been so unfortunate.

It wasn't my fault, was it?

Maybe if I had run away from the Pack the very moment I was brought into it, all of these would not have happened.

Amid my thoughts, I noticed how famished I was. How could I not be hungry when there were so many thoughts running around in my head? Not only that, but I have not had a single thing to eat since the day that just passed by—and I would fall to the ground if I didn't do something about my current situation.

Pacing the space of the chamber, I also realized how weak my legs had become. I needed to eat something and there wasn't a way to reach out
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