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CHAPTER 31: Tattoos And Bad Blood
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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Shia, what happened?” Langrion said abruptly, sitting down from his side of the bed. As he rose, he saw Shia clutching her wrist cautiously. She looked as frightened as when he found her by the woods earlier that night.
“Is everything’s alright?... You should sleep some more,” he began to say when he realized she might have woken up from a nightmare. He patted her back gently and tried to soothe her while she trembled.
“Do you see this one?” she said, She raised the wrist that she kept covering towards the light, and when she did, Langrion’s eyes fell on a tattooed pair of spirals etched side by side together. The figures seemed to come alive as they swirled slowly in two opposite directions. Or was it just his groggy eyes playing tricks on him?
“I did not know you had a tattoo,” he frowned.
“I didn’t! I’ve never had one! I dreamt of it just now, and it appeared after I woke up!”
“That’s impossible!” he exclaimed under his breath. “What was y
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