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CXIX. Confrontation

Author: Raegus N.
last update Last Updated: 2022-10-08 22:24:03

Ryder expected the challenge but he didn’t expect that Jin would ambush him first thing in the morning.

After the talk last night with the chief, he was allowed to sleep in the guest room. It was the first act of kindness that he had ever received from them in almost how many decades that he was treated as someone hostile to the village and the clan. As expected, his mind only allowed him some minutes of sleep and rest. The rest was filled with nightmares.

The first was about Raeya. She was wrapped in black smoke in a standing position. Her skin was so pale she looked like a corpse not until she opened her eyes. But instead of her black pupils that Ryder fully knew and memorized, her irises were red. Her mouth opened as if to speak but instead of a voice, blood streamed out of her mouth and eyes. The skin of her face was the first to crack until it spread through her body. Before Raeya would completely be shattered to dust, she only screamed one word.

WHY.

All the time, Ryder could on
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