The mirth faded as Cybele proceeded, however. "Yes. They certainly did. It caused problems, to understate everything totally." Megrez couldn't suppress the nervous swallow and shiver. She wanted to think those days were behind her. "Who... who died for you?" Now that she mentioned it and dared to think about it, she was pretty sure that all of her "mentors" from those days had either disappeared or definitively died. The loss of one in particular nearly broke her at first, but the passing of time had given her the distance to realize that that person was terrible for her.
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