h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Chapter 44/span/h1
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Everyone was quiet as the reality of those words sunk in. "We of the Seven nearly died to stop Gaea from pulling that off. I'll be damned if anyone else tries that shit again," growled Piper./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do you know where the North Wind's Keep is?" asked Alfred. "Coz, you guys, like, sorta were the OGs who did that"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 North Wind's Keep can only refer to one place: The throne of Boreas, King of the North Wind," answered Piper. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And that is in…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Quebec, obviously"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh my God, Matthew's in danger!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who's Matthew?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 twin brother to Alfred and the spirit of Canada"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah,"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So here's the plan: Courtney, you rally the campers and get them to safety. Stay tuned and if you ever see anything out of the ordinary, call us. Leo will go to Camp Half-Blood and I to Camp Jupiter to rendezvous with the demigods and try to rally an army to besiege Quebec. Alfred, DO NOT attempt anything until we get back. Boreas has the Boreads and his insufferable daughter Khione, plus an army of snow spirits and monsters. Even three, er, polisaiads might not come back alive."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You got it,"/span/p
h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/h1
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Nico d'Angelo arrived to whisk Leo and Piper to their destinations. "I'm glad we were able to stop McLean. Those microchips would've allowed the eidolons to possess viewers from their TV screens, to disastrous results."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Courtney gathered the campers to safety, saying goodbye to Maria and the others. "Maria, if you're ever in danger, please let me know. Here's my PDA. It has a direct button to my phone. I don't know how I'll ever be able to help the likes of you guys, but you never know"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Thank you, Courtney, this means everything to me."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""But, Maria. If China is leading the war, won't that make YOU a prime target? It's no secret China's been eyeing you for extra storage room for years"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do not worry about me, sister. We are made of the same tough stuff. China will die trying to subjugate me. Besides, he has to go through his /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"other/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" daughter first, and she's quite a little dragon…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At the edge of a cliff, China eyed the scene with the mix of pity and contempt. Taiwan had put up a battle worthy of the Red Cliffs, but in the end she had been overwhelmed. Her towns lay in desolation, her navy crushed, her air force turned into scrap metal. Mei herself lay in tatters before him, yet her own face remained defiant as ever. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Join me, daughter. Do not be a fool like the rest of your siblings"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I am no longer your daughter and you will never be my father again"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do not cause me pain, my little plum. I could care less that Kiku and Lien ignored my call, but /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You are not my father. You have not been the father I knew for a very long time"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You leave me no choice". A single tear formed in his right eye. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I never gave you the choice. What happens next is my choice and mine alone." And suddenly, Mei Lin Wang leapt from the cliff, into the sea. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"China's stoic face hid inner turmoil at the sight. Suddenly, the seas parted, and a beautiful bird soared above, into the heavens, never to be seen again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So, you made like that other girl, long ago, and left me to join the Celestial host… Farewell, daughter…" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 tears stopped, and China resumed his mission, aiming now at his other daughter…/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Back at Wawanakwa, the three nations were resting when they heard a voice in the distance./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Hi-yo! I can't believe you guys dropped by without telling me! Come with me, I've got brunch prepared!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Canada's place was so large, it took him quite a while to notice their crossing into his territory. /span/p
h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"strong id="docs-internal-guid-0c4396a7-7fff-999e-5016-b81e060ad262" style="font-weight: normal;"br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /br /strong/h1
h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"br /br /h1
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Everyone was quiet as the reality of those words sunk in. "We of the Seven nearly died to stop Gaea from pulling that off. I'll be damned if anyone else tries that shit again," growled Piper./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do you know where the North Wind's Keep is?" asked Alfred. "Coz, you guys, like, sorta were the OGs who did that"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 North Wind's Keep can only refer to one place: The throne of Boreas, King of the North Wind," answered Piper. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""And that is in…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Quebec, obviously"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh my God, Matthew's in danger!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Who's Matthew?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 twin brother to Alfred and the spirit of Canada"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah,"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So here's the plan: Courtney, you rally the campers and get them to safety. Stay tuned and if you ever see anything out of the ordinary, call us. Leo will go to Camp Half-Blood and I to Camp Jupiter to rendezvous with the demigods and try to rally an army to besiege Quebec. Alfred, DO NOT attempt anything until we get back. Boreas has the Boreads and his insufferable daughter Khione, plus an army of snow spirits and monsters. Even three, er, polisaiads might not come back alive."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You got it,"/span/p
h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"strong style="font-weight: normal;" /strong/h1
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Nico d'Angelo arrived to whisk Leo and Piper to their destinations. "I'm glad we were able to stop McLean. Those microchips would've allowed the eidolons to possess viewers from their TV screens, to disastrous results."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Courtney gathered the campers to safety, saying goodbye to Maria and the others. "Maria, if you're ever in danger, please let me know. Here's my PDA. It has a direct button to my phone. I don't know how I'll ever be able to help the likes of you guys, but you never know"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Thank you, Courtney, this means everything to me."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""But, Maria. If China is leading the war, won't that make YOU a prime target? It's no secret China's been eyeing you for extra storage room for years"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do not worry about me, sister. We are made of the same tough stuff. China will die trying to subjugate me. Besides, he has to go through his /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"other/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" daughter first, and she's quite a little dragon…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"At the edge of a cliff, China eyed the scene with the mix of pity and contempt. Taiwan had put up a battle worthy of the Red Cliffs, but in the end she had been overwhelmed. Her towns lay in desolation, her navy crushed, her air force turned into scrap metal. Mei herself lay in tatters before him, yet her own face remained defiant as ever. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Join me, daughter. Do not be a fool like the rest of your siblings"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I am no longer your daughter and you will never be my father again"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Do not cause me pain, my little plum. I could care less that Kiku and Lien ignored my call, but /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you/spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"-"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You are not my father. You have not been the father I knew for a very long time"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You leave me no choice". A single tear formed in his right eye. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I never gave you the choice. What happens next is my choice and mine alone." And suddenly, Mei Lin Wang leapt from the cliff, into the sea. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"China's stoic face hid inner turmoil at the sight. Suddenly, the seas parted, and a beautiful bird soared above, into the heavens, never to be seen again./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""So, you made like that other girl, long ago, and left me to join the Celestial host… Farewell, daughter…" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; 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 tears stopped, and China resumed his mission, aiming now at his other daughter…/span/p
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