that honor went to the quarterback who had replaced a certain bully a few weeks ago, along with the cheerleader''s captain. As far as I was concerned, though, Rachel was and is the only queen in my life. I wasn''t aware of it at the time, but afterwards some of our friends told us that we had ended up eclipsing our homecoming royalty. When I thought about it later, I was kind of stupidly proud of that, and Rachel herself was pretty happy about it as well. After all, as Ariana, she had been practicing dances with me for several weeks in Panarena.
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“eight days, and then perhaps ten to get to Harmonia City. My body is strong, masters, and you have need of haste. The only thing which could get there faster than I would be a dragon--!!” he explained to us, and then suddenly his eyes lit up and he looked towards the northwest.
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