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STRANGE

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last update Last Updated: 2025-01-09 21:50:28

"There is something important I need to report," Grey said, sad bursting into the room. Seated opposite Damien was Sam; he raised his eyebrow at him and motioned for him to go on.

"Didn't you say it was important? Are you not going to report it?" Sam asked while Grey stood by the door silently, all the vigour with which he had rushed into the room gone in an instant.

"Well, I do not know if I should," Grey said.

"Go on," Damien said. Sam would try to figure out what it was later, and with his annoying and imposing personality, Damien would come to him when he would give him the information to save himself from the stress of going back and forth with the situation. Was it not best that he heard it firsthand?

"Okay sir, I just heard from a staff member at the Voss residence that they had a visitor yesterday."

"And how is that big news?" Sam said. It was not a strange thing to let visitors into your house after all.

"That is strange," Damien said.

Sam lifted up his head and wondere
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