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Back to the Castle
Asteria’s airplane landed at a small airport in Linz a few hours after Hines touched down, and while she wasn’t sure this scheme of his was going to pay off, she did feel more hopeful about the situation than she had in days. Ever since those Guardians from the Caribbean had flooded every headquarters she’d been targeting, she’d been stuck. It seemed the serum Hines had concocted to turn the Guardians back into humans so they could be destroyed was fairly useless, and she wasn’t getting anywhere with any of the plans she attempted to put in place. Perhaps she would find her answers in the hills around Cesky Krumlov.
The pregnancy wasn’t affecting her the same way she would have expected a normal human pregnancy to wear on a woman, though the child was growing much faster than any human baby. She had a feeling she’d be giving birth within the next few weeks at most, and then what, she wasn’t sure. Having never had children, other
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