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CHAPTER 16 — JHAN.
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2021-11-08 14:49:22JHAN'S P.O.V.
I and Tia left without Jereum today. He said he had been suspecting Kaldar was leaving the house to an unknown place and returning before we would return back home. The walk to the end of town was usually filled with Tia's jokes and jests but today even she seemed awfully quiet. Tia wasn't the sad type like Leya, or the grumpy type like Jereum. She was the joy of all of us. With Kaldar now making the weird one. We were complete. I was their leader, their advisor. The serious big brother who found them all. They all looked up like their demi god. Mostly Leya though, Jereum knew I had acquired my knowledge over time. I wasn't looking forward to impurifying any new members. We were a team of five. Tia was silent because today would be the first day she would be tasked with training the young vampires who wanted to become survey elites and adjudicators. She had been quite nervous since but I had reassured her that it wouldn't be a big deal.
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