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How Good of a Magician Are You?
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The washer whirred as Andrea stood before it. She was doing their laundry that quiet afternoon after getting drafts out there for an evaluation. No, Leon didn’t have the power to turn down the plates; she only needed the estimates and if the company could mass produce it in a few months. Moreover, he knew the master craftsmen in the field—as well as their prices.
Right now, she was just humming along with the song in the background. After doing the laundry, she could start cleaning the study. The last time, she found some missing document pages there, lost some weeks ago. It was even long enough to drive Gryphon furious.
Ding! There was a notification on the tablet mounted on the wall. Gryphon just entered the gates, and Andrea pressed on it to see the camera feed of him rolling up to his parking spot. When he got to the door, she just returned to a
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