hundreds of planets. You could have been too if you hadn’t have been squandering all your time away.”


    want to buy a planet, Nathias.”


    wish they had forgotten about you. There’s a difference, Markus.”


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    truth behind his friend’s words. It was like someone had rung a bell that only he could hear, and in fact, only he could. Markus’s Dome-ni of Verity was not a common talent. Nathias was speaking the truth, or at least a truth he believed in.


    Who do you think?”


    do uneasy. He was the one who made others uneasy, and that was a point of pride for him. But now… Adar was back. Like really, truly back in Ethia. After all this time. It had been something Markus had desperately wished for most of his life. Then why did he feel the unease and a knot starting to grow in his gut?


    Have been. It’s been twenty years, Nathias. He probably doesn’t even remember me. Yavit, I barely remember it all myself.”