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September Chapter 81: Muddy Puddles
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Lila didn't see the strangers for several days, before abruptly catching their reflection in the muddy puddle of the School Maths Yard, appropriately named after all the maths classrooms that overlooked it.
The library wouldn't open for several tens of minutes, and Lila, already finished her bought lunch of a pasta pot and a square flapjack which was mostly uncooked with large, inexcusable clumps of butter sitting throughout the whole structure, with only one particular corner of the dessert containing any sweetness, the rest of the supposed, alleged treat tasting worse than damp cardboard.
She had pulled out her borrowed book, one of the 'How to Train your Dragon' series that she knew would end with a cliffhanger, just like the last one, by the sheer virtue of needing the series to keep selling and keep as many readers as possible to keep spending money.
Honestly, she wasn't even angry at the publisher, or the author.
She only really fe
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