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Authors: Fiona Paul

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Spinning around, she pushed through the masses of people. She
had to get away. Far away.
She made it to the edge of the piazza when a man dressed all in
black melted out of the night and reached for her.

“Rare is the blood that recombines to
form a pure sample of the fifth humor.”
—THE BOOK OF THE ETERNAL ROSE
nine

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