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We can use all the help we can get.
You’re right, he’s useless.
Treagan
Thank you, thank you! You won’t regret this.
I’m Treagan. Treagan Barrek. Yes,thoseBarreks.
You
So your father is the head of the Somatists’ Society? The powerful healer and most influential mage of our time?
Is that supposed to impress me?
Never heard of them.
In that case, maybe we should part ways now.
Cartwright
Well, fuck.
— First time meeting Treagan inThe Stones of Ayor 4
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no-clip up the mountain
I don’t talkto Damien at all the next day. It’s the longest I’ve gone without talking to him since I smashed into his back on theSOA4release day, and perhaps that in itself is pretty sad, but I feel sadder not talking to him.
“You haven’t even texted each other?” Victory asks over coffee on Saturday.
“He sent some word-vomit yesterday,” I admit sheepishly. “But I don’t know how to talk to him right now.”
“Why?” Her face contorts with concern, and I can tell she’s prepared to either hug me or commit murder on my behalf at a moment’s notice, depending on what I need. (She’s the best.) “What happened?”
