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10. Taken
Reza also sees a guard walking beside her. Guard's head is covered in a helmet and her with a grey shawl. Her navy blue paneled skirt is the same from the time he ordered her to be taken to the dungeon.
He doesn't say anything but keeps following them with greater pace, the distance between keeps getting shorter.
He doesn't let any sound get out of his footsteps but Alicia gets an irresistible urge to look to the banyan tree in her right.
She looks towards the banyan tree and reminisces her memory around the tree. Her shawl falls out from her head to reveal her beautiful dark ash brown hair. Reza smiles and looks at it peacefully.
Little does he know, she is reminiscing the same memory he did a while ago. But when he said "If you want to," to her about se
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