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His heart had never raced so fast and his thoughts had never run so wide. The hair at the back of his neck stood up and his eyes hardened the moment Zariek turned to him. It was easy for his thoughts to travel back to his time with Zariek. The time he had spent with him in that cell while he drew out his last breath till there was nothing left. The memory of what happened came like a flash in his mind, making him freeze in the place he stood. All the while that Zariek had been awake, his mind never crossed to the time he spent with Zariek at the cell. He had been too occupied with Avyanna and the matters concerning the slave and Nyssa included having thought back to that time. He had even forgotten that any of such things happened in the first place. The one time that can end him
