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It'll be a bit shorter in terms of actual story word count, and you'll see why at the bottom; sorry in advance, and if you see this before you spend the coins, use a fast pass instead to save them.
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By the time that we reached the camp, the shaking of the city had subsided almost entirely, and now a thick haze of smoke hung over the sandstone expanse as parts of it burnt still, the embers left behind emitting an eery glow that seemed almost hellish.
Almost certainly the citizens of the city felt that way, and I had a small moment of mercy enter my heart as I prayed there were no innocents laying around inside of those parts of the city, but there was nothing I could do now.
All that was left for me was to wait for Anput, Leone and Jahi to return to the camp as well, and it would seem that we were all on the same wavelength once more as they both returned minutes after I had.
Seriously, thank you all so very much, and I don't want to let down some of the expectations that I think I've come to bear over these years; maybe it's all in my mind, but honestly, who gives a damn, right?
I don't ever plan on stopping my writing, and I want to give more stories to the world no matter how strange or smutty they can get, or how mumbled and halfhearted they might be sometimes... I just want to write, from the bottom of my heart.
So thank you all, and I hope that this slackening of goals I feel forced to meet will help make this all so much better for you all, beacuse you deserve it.