What was I supposed to do about this?
My situation had just become impossibly complicated.
I now knew, without a doubt, that my sister, Aria, was still worried about me.
Damn it. I can’t let this happen.
There was a reason I’d provoked Professor into beating me, a reason I’d endured it just to extinguish her concern. Anyone who cared for me, who worried about me, would be struck by a curse during the ‘Ordeal of the Providence,’ an event that
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