Chapter 23 – Janus

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RHETT I didn’t go back to sleep. Didn’t even bother trying. Instead, I went for a run, pulling on the strength of the knight to give me inhuman speed. Strangely enough, I felt stronger. Faster. More aware of my surroundings. Each sense heightened more than usual. I felt like a wolf. Or at least what I imagined my friends felt like when they shifted and ran through the woods. It was invigorating, to say the least, and I only stopped when I reached one of the outposts. I took a seat on the bench outside the little hut. There was no guard here tonight, that or he was patrolling. I pulled a lighter and my smokes from my pants pocket and lit it. Taking a deep satisfying drag of the tobacco stick. And watched as the smoke I blew out lifted into the air and dissipated. With the next drag,

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