River of Bones
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It was quiet that night, when I took my last breath. The air chilling but quite refreshing when it filled my lungs for the very last time. My eyes fluttered shut as I savored this moment. The stinging of my cheeks in the frostbit air, the occasional breeze that carried my hair with the wind, the fresh air that chillingly burned my lungs as I took it in, and the forest that was silent when I began my decent into the glacial water with my captors nearby.
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Our main characters in "River of Bones" will be the supposedly born blind, Lady Mayu, Maid Alla, Marquess Teivel, Prince Darth, and Vert, formally known as Duke Milverton.
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