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"I thought you'd be used to death, being the white-haired assassin and all; legend
says you've died a few times. What was it like?" she asked incredulously.
The tears grew harder to control as I felt the impending sense of vulnerability
at that moment. "I wouldn't know" I spat at her. She slowly wiped her
face with her sleeve, grimacing. "Well there's a first time for
everything, isn't there?" -
Artemis is thrown into an abyss of uncertainty and corruption, where her enemies are masked and unknown, even within herself. Striving to gain strength, Artemis goes to extreme measures to overcome her fears and vulnerability, pulling herself deeper into oblivion. 
She is fierce,
She is powerful, 
But she's also adrift.
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