Chapter 37: Avalon’s Message
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Rolling up his bandages, Mikhail walked back to his castle dorm where everything was already getting lively.
On the way, he was subjected to many stares but he had gotten used to it by now.
He had come to terms with the fact that it was going to be like this ever since he had been topping every category he was in.
And he knew this was the purpose of the mission too.
His mind went back to the flashback he had seen on the first day with Modric and Icarus in the room.
He remembered how their faces suddenly changed to rotten headless sacks resting in the snow.
His whole squadron laid dead before him with their bodies strewn out.
His own broken body covered in blood, resting against the wall of the warehouse in the wild.
He remembered those flashes from his past. It was his last days before his death.
But then, there was someone else with him.
A woman.