I sit up immediately on the bench. That was definitely what I was expecting. I am ashamed to say but I have not, for once, imagined Alden, this monster sitting in front of me, as anyone who could have ever had relatives, especially female ones in whose memories he would have vases made. “What happened to them?” I ask, my voice barely a whisper.“There was a time when this mountain was our home and all around it was teeming with our kind. My family ruled around this mountain and we faced no trouble for several millennia. Then two centuries ago, I ran into a woman, very much like you,” he says and I shift uncomfortably in my seat. “My family did not approve of her but I trusted her so much, I was willing to leave this mountain and go somewhere far away to be with her.” He remained quiet after that and I feared that that was the end of the story but when I looked at him and I saw the anger welling in his eyes, I knew that there was more. More than I probably did not want to hear but als
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