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Chapter 236: The Ghost Ship in the Bottle
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Ne..."
Emmet had to pause and take a figurative step back at Lila's reaction.
Immediately, she had stopped laughing and then had paused for a moment as she made whatever equivalent to what seemed to be Emmet's," err..." sound, whenever he was stuck for words and didn't know what to say in awkward situations.
"Oh fuck, sorry! I didn't know exactly that... I wasn't certain that I wasn't making noise when I laughed. I kind of made a habit when I was younger sometimes to not upset my mother's delicate hearing, and that habit kind of became... what I do now all the time," Lila explained, her voice taking on a new, gentler tone as if Emmet was the younger one here and she was speaking to a child all of a sudden.
"I'm not a child, Lila. I'm older than you," Emmet candidly made his opinion known.
"No you're not. I was born in the last century, while you just said that you learned about this contemporary period of time through a textbook. You're born
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