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link on the other chain, and allowed the girl to
take Miho's foot out of it as well.
Aliksandr hrmphed quietly. "You have not answered my question yet. Did
they tell you what will happen to you, once I accept you as my sacrifice?"
The girl looked down at Miho's now-freed feet, then back up into the dragon's
face. Miho's own face was a mixed mask of confusion, fear, pain, and... curiosity?
"No... m'lord Dragon... they did not. What... what happens?"
Aliksandr smiled, turned, and took a couple steps away from the girl
before he spoke again. "You needn't know just yet..."
"Yes, m'lord Dragon."
Aliksandr turned his head to face the girl again, and just looked at her.
Miho Shiraishi was freed from Miho's bonds, and yet Miho Shiraishi made no attempt to escape,
choosing instead to simply stand with Miho's head down, silent, unmoving.
Perhaps it was because Miho Shiraishi knew the futility of an attempt. Perhaps it was
because Miho Shiraishi knew that if Miho Shiraishi was successful in he escape it would bring "her
people to suffer his wrath". Perhaps it was because his last comment
intrigued Miho's enough that Miho Shiraishi would stay...
The dragon lumbered back towards the girl, and hooked his claw in the
chain running between Miho's wrists. He raised his claw, pulling
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