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  “Yes!”

  “Yeah, now I can become a ‘Traceur of Eight Paths’.

  “I’m not leaving until you finish the book. You can only talk to me here, right?”

  “That’s what I thought. I’m staying.”

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  “Perfect. It’s been fun, but my time is up.”

  And so Dali walked out of the monument.

  “What?!”

  “How did-”

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  “Really?”

  “Neither could I.”

  “I accept the class change to Elemental Traceur.”

  “Wow, this… isn’t a knight.”

  “I mean, of course not, but it just sort of hit me.”

  “Yeah, you’re right of course.”

  Dali stopped.

  “I guess this is goodbye then”

  “What?”

  “Is that…”

  “But-”

  “This is what you were doing during that week isn’t it?”

  Dali sighed, and began the trek back to town.

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