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“Out of habit and exhaustion, Iria’s surprise did not show on her face. He had been worried about her. She didn’t even need the barest scraps of her returning magic to know it. He’d been worried about her, and that was new, and it tugged at her. “Okay,” was her whole response, and she wondered if she would have cried had she had the energy for it.”

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The Color Plague

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Emily Poirier

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