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... gripped the armrests of her chair so tight her knuckles went white.

"Tell me," I said. "Tell me how he helped. After Gabriel’s vendetta. Tell me everything."

She nodded and I waited. This part had to come from her. She had to walk herself through it. She had to see it with her own eyes, her own memory. That was the only way it would stick.

She started slow.

"When Gabriel first started targeting Nocturne," she said, "Aldric was the one who told me something was wr ...

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