Chapter 33: The Implock – Chapter 29 – “The Catalyst of Curiosity”

∼ The Catalyst of Curiosity ∼

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The wagon rumbled as it was pulled along the Iron Road, its cloth canopy doing little for privacy as long furrows had been torn in the fabric from the attack last night. Inside, Aria sat cross-legged, an impling in her lap. Eric sat resting against the other side of the wagon atop sacks of wheat and grain, sleeping his woe away.

He was quite out of it as the healing that Aria had done in secrecy had taken a toll on the young man. But he was as right as rain, nonetheless - his insides no longer a mush from being crushed under the oversized monster.

Like Aria, Nyx stared with a distant gaze - his focus on the screens in his mind displaying his single-handed and valiant exploits during the monster attack.

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