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Cileen blushed. Another emotion, being flustered. All these emotions were so different from the solitude of peace she was familiar with.

“ Please... I have to know…how exactly were you harmed?”Maliki’s smile faded quickly. This time his face was relatively mellow.” My people have been starving for many years. There was plenty of food before the famine reached the land, but now that our crops have died I have been sent to find more food for our people. And this place may just help.