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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c99661006f2d59de84020b853c9baf1b"Dragonheart didn't know how to reply. The truth is, she never really wanted to join. But after Kvatch, she needed a quick and easy way to make money. And arena fighting just seemed right for that. However, she didn't feel like telling his hopeful little face that it was because she was broke, so she kept it blunt./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5a457f011dd69ae00d8b0555f70a1b68"Throughout the duration of their walk, Dragonheart had noticed that this fan was constantly looking around. At every turn, at every guard under every glowing fire./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="363ddb3c0d99f00162358b813f3c5b84""Well if it isn't the one-and-only!", the Argonian greeted Dragonheart with open arms./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e873cc0bddc6e55c41edddfea89a8f8a""And you've brought the whores!", Dragonheart exclaimed at the Khajiits with outstretched arms, "Excellent!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3e6bec18732928ff2f258dc0cad90548"Dragonheart cut him off, flicking her mead-soaked fingertips in his face./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5911a27b7ea6117fcea5fa210554d83a""So you can take one look at me and decide I come from a long, fruitful line of alcoholics?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="86d123758b2a6e6a8a3b6099be46a490""AND fighters AND sailors, as Dunmer usually are, who obviously must have been good at surviving or you wouldn't even em style="box-sizing: border-box;"be/em here. Taking into account the race and lineage of competing gladiators can really help your chances of placing a winning bet, just saying."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4bf94811a7c9e1d4ac31002d4ba07dd3""I'm not a racist! I bet on em style="box-sizing: border-box;"you /emdidn't I?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="076b11d5a5675aa806dbeb965d3d90eb"The fan was quiet for a moment, but his smile remained. He looked as if he wanted to speak, but everything in the world was telling him not to. Eventually, he blurted./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9102947dec0a521fe61552b01d95cb28""Room!"/p
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