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    Stepping out of the trees onto the gravel path that led from the parking lot out of sight, Gilla waited for Jonnathan before she tiptoed through the large wooden arch that acted as the entrance to the hot spring. Smooth stained planks created a large deck around multiple steaming pools,  by flowering bushes and a tall wooden fence. All of the curtains of the changing stalls that sat next to the entrance hung open, and no one relaxed in the pools or the dozen beach chairs. They had beaten the two eidolon to the hot spring.


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    Pana’s eyes burned with anger. The aura around her darkened, accenting her pale skin. “You have no right to that power.” She thrust the sword toward Rhea in emphasis. “Mother should never have given it to you!”


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    Slumping, he frowned at his feet. “Yeah, but my mom is going to freak. And I’m wet.”


    Gilla could not help but chuckle.


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