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Searching for Charity №8 — Charity got more than she bargained for…

This is a continuing story. Find previous instalments here.

“The Fearless Herald?” Charity snickered.

“Yes, that’s me,” the man in loincloths said proudly.

He gathered his belongings: plate armour, a greatsword, an amulet with a sun emblem, …

S**t, Charity thought, a paladin.

“Let’s go left.”

“You always have to turn right first?!” Herald insisted.

“Is that how you got captured.”

“Ha … funny! Always proceed to the dungeon’s core, then ….”

“Get killed by monsters ….”

“… to the treasure chamber. Don’t get sidetracked in the periphery….”

“… but killed in the core?”

“You are cynical!”

“What’s that?”

“It means you are negative and ….”

“The sound, idiot!”

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