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CHAPTER 22 — FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS.
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If anyone had told me that I would get a second, stranger visit with the higher court, I would have said they were lying. But this time I was merely a subject of examination.
They had peered into my mind countless times with their intrusive mind’s-eye. The feeling they gave me was like a great blanket was thrown over your brain, preventing you from communicating with any other part of your body—they said they did it that way so I wouldn't be distracted.
You couldn't move your limbs, see through your eyes or even hear sounds around you, it only lasted about a second in reality though it could feel like hours had passed. It was a good thing that they could only see the memories you held and strongly focused on, so I pushed any thought of Dawn whatsoever to the furthest part of my mind.
East valley was dubbed that because the main road between the two forest areas was significantly lower than the surrounding trees. It was like a valley at
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