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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><em>Revenge is poorly spent passion.</em> <em>&nbsp;Vengeance is justice.</em></p></blockquote>
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<h2><strong>Sevna</strong></h2>
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<p>She had been too long in the City. The cold, dark, and emptiness closed off her heart, her humanity, her pain.</p>
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<p>Now she stood on a hillside overlooking the City of Black Stone. A warm breeze fluttered her tattered robes as she surveyed her fallen kingdom once more.</p>
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<p>Her withered heart ached for the beauty and light that had been lost, no, taken. The ache sparked, but she snuffed the growing rage. She had come here to learn.</p>
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<p>The strangers were easy to track but hard to see. Some type of arcane camouflage hid their movements in their camp. She could sense that the nature witch was already recovered and that another of their party was very stealthily stalking her, but she could glean little else.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;She had learned much from their conversation. They knew him, but they didn't know who he was, not really. The irony forced a broken smile across her face. In another life, she hadn't known him at all. She had learned much from their conversation.</p>
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<p>She felt the sun rising behind her. Moving all day and all night, she could watch the next sunrise from the shore. While she looked for their boat.</p>
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