Paradigm

Paradigm

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Last published Tue, Apr 23, 2019

action adventure fantasy highfantasy magic

Hooves thundered by on the dusty path. Riders clad in black cloaks stopped for nothing. They bore a message of disaster. They would never tell it.

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