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Vi regarded her coldly, the emotion that welled within her both the entire reason for her existence and an irksome effect that he wished he had not instilled in her. But then without it, what would they be? Little by little, the deity thawed. He became no less stern, no less concerned with the events that had transpired within the Hollowed Grounds... but he seemed to realise the potential effects of his own ire."She must not be allowed to get her claws into this world a second time," he vowed. "Promise me, Safrin, that you will do all you can to facilitate her capture. If you love them as you say you do - if you adore them so - then you will protect them from her influence."
