p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Addax still remembered that fateful day when Thorn rescued him. It turned out after his squad had disappeared, burn had thought his unit were traders and put up wanted signs. Thorn had seen this as an opportunity and found some of his unit, but not Sandstone or Rockhopper. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In a way, Addax owed Thorn his life. So why was he betraying her by kidnapping her only daughter? Why was he threatening to kill the daughter of his friend- Six-Claws? Finding his family didn't seem like enough of an excuse. But he was determined to find his wife and kids again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Though, when they arrived at Burn's stronghold he'd begun to regret his choice. He was also worried about what he'd find out. He managed to keep it together until he was inside. Smolder (Burns brother) told him not to worry and that he'd get all his reinstatement. He only managed to say "but," when the guards took him and deposited him in his old barracks. He was utterly shocked when he found Sandstone alive and well on a bed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sandstone? I-I-I thought you were dead," Addax stuttered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Addax?," Sandstone said, similarly stunned," I thought /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"were dead, what happened?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Addax talked for nearly an hour and by the end Sandstone had already fallen over 14 times./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What?!" Sandstone exclaimed once he was finished, "you're not exaggerating, are you?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No," Addax said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sandstone's story turned out to be relatively simple. He had escaped right before they put him in the cell. Then spent two years hiding with the Talons of Peace. When he was ready he went to Burn's stronghold and told one of the advisers the whole story. He had been granted amnesty in exchange for extra work (/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"lots /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"of extra work)./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That night he lay awake in the darkness. Inside him was a very large pile of regret that had nothing to do with not eating dinner. He still felt bad about betraying Thorn… if he could do something about it. He wished he could have been brave enough to try to get his family to Scorpion den. Then he would still be safe with Thorn and have his family back./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The next day was positively THE MOST AWFUL DAY EVER. When he woke up the day seemed normal. But then came the bad news, a whole pile of it, literally. Before he woke up someone had dropped about 1 million scrolls at the foot of his bed. The scrolls turned out to be letters and documents regarding his stuff. Most of the scrolls were very boring and talked about his gold and other personal belongings. But one contained the worst news ever… /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His family… was gone./spanspan id="docs-internal-guid-1c3e0ad2-7fff-84d3-5d52-5b8a78338966"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A/N-/span/strongspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Hi! I will probably not post much after chapter 7 because of school./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"In a way, Addax owed Thorn his life. So why was he betraying her by kidnapping her only daughter? Why was he threatening to kill the daughter of his friend- Six-Claws? Finding his family didn't seem like enough of an excuse. But he was determined to find his wife and kids again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Though, when they arrived at Burn's stronghold he'd begun to regret his choice. He was also worried about what he'd find out. He managed to keep it together until he was inside. Smolder (Burns brother) told him not to worry and that he'd get all his reinstatement. He only managed to say "but," when the guards took him and deposited him in his old barracks. He was utterly shocked when he found Sandstone alive and well on a bed./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Sandstone? I-I-I thought you were dead," Addax stuttered./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Addax?," Sandstone said, similarly stunned," I thought /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"were dead, what happened?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Addax talked for nearly an hour and by the end Sandstone had already fallen over 14 times./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""What?!" Sandstone exclaimed once he was finished, "you're not exaggerating, are you?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""No," Addax said./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sandstone's story turned out to be relatively simple. He had escaped right before they put him in the cell. Then spent two years hiding with the Talons of Peace. When he was ready he went to Burn's stronghold and told one of the advisers the whole story. He had been granted amnesty in exchange for extra work (/spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"lots /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"of extra work)./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"That night he lay awake in the darkness. Inside him was a very large pile of regret that had nothing to do with not eating dinner. He still felt bad about betraying Thorn… if he could do something about it. He wished he could have been brave enough to try to get his family to Scorpion den. Then he would still be safe with Thorn and have his family back./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The next day was positively THE MOST AWFUL DAY EVER. When he woke up the day seemed normal. But then came the bad news, a whole pile of it, literally. Before he woke up someone had dropped about 1 million scrolls at the foot of his bed. The scrolls turned out to be letters and documents regarding his stuff. Most of the scrolls were very boring and talked about his gold and other personal belongings. But one contained the worst news ever… /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His family… was gone./spanspan id="docs-internal-guid-1c3e0ad2-7fff-84d3-5d52-5b8a78338966"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"strongspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A/N-/span/strongspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" Hi! I will probably not post much after chapter 7 because of school./span/p