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    “You’re hurt,” Laios said, simply, like you might point out someone’s shoe was unlaced.

    What? He looked down, expecting to see blood or broken skin. All he saw was Laios kneeling before him, hands on his thighs.

    “I see it. Plain as day. You’re walking around, bleeding out, pretending like you aren’t. It makes me sad,”

    Kabru swallowed, trying to understand what he meant. Sometimes it felt like a riddle, overly cryptic and beautifully simplistic.

    “You’re bearing your teeth, hoping we won’t notice. Hoping that if you’re scary enough, the thing that’s trying to eat you will back off,”

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