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A Short Fling
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Autumn was setting in again.
A chilly breeze swung through the forest and over the lake. I was sitting on the pier my father had built.
It calmed me, and it was probably why my father made it. He was stressing over his wound, not being able to fight like he always did. It's a pain when you lose a skill that made your career. It was all you ever knew, and to have it taken from you by an injury; it can be demoralizing. He wasn't only stressing over that but also over my mother. She was getting worse, and there was nothing he could do to help her. The medicine that she needed was on the other side of the region. The Mountains of Fangs is what they called it. That's where a particular herb could be found called Lifewater. The problem was the increase of deadly animals. Fanged wolves and fanged bears were common and aggressive. A strong figh
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