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Twenty Three

Author: Stephen
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Silence fell upon the members of the Chamber of Duties that included the blue-eyed baldie, the expectant mother, the brown haired man whose nose extended like an hand fan - keeping his brown moustache in obscurity, Eallric Hancey of the Police Department, Wene Noelle from Ciburrh, Artin Dane - the leader of the Unity Board, Riyen Gosbald; the grand daughter of an ex leader of the board, Seignor Godbald, Gauwilh Chames - an endorsed attorney of the Eventide Shore Law Firm, spiteful Troef’ny Uthane and other random members who had nothing peculiar.

Cwena Engow was quiet, too.

They all waited with hearts racing and brains receptive to chaos from a creature they knew not.

Sir. Oswic - with a bleeding leg that had spread a warm, red liquid that covered more than half the entire ground, stood at the front of them all - a few metres, waiting for a howl or a three headed beast to jump into the alley.

But, nothing.

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