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Submitted to Contest #327
If I am to live to see next month, I will need her help. This has gone on far too long. And now I am coming to the end of my natural life. If she and I fail to forge our bond soon, I will return to dust. ‘Tis my fault, really. I became frustrated, then resentful, and then just stopped trying. She’s really not an idiot, simply undereducated. She lost her mother much too young and never completed her training in the cunning arts. And, honestly, her kind is so complacent now. While I’ve only been on this earth a relatively short time, t...
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