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Chapter 41 - Lady Olenna Crowhurst of Draemor II

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

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Ravenna's eyes fluttered open when the carriage came to a halt. It wasn't until a faint sound of the lively atmosphere caught her senses did she fully woke.

And her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach. They're here.

Her eyes shot open when the heat from the sun seeped into the carriage and she quickly shifted the curtains, expecting to be greeted by bloody moonlight, manor built in bones, ashes, and ruins, ghost in red sweeping the surface, demons curling the depth of the ground, and heat from flames that carried no source.

But it was unexpectedly… beautiful.

Ravenna quickly drew the curtains close when she heard approaching footsteps. Before she could recover, the door suddenly opened, revealing a man and woman whom she assumed to be servants.

And they looked… humanic.

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