21. Utor

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They were watching her for weeks; it was only days until their borrowed skin began to rot.

It was a punishment, a consequence for devouring their own kin. And here they thought they ate the last of their relatives; yet, there she was; a sun descendant Furie, a distant cousin; in the flesh and bone, hiding within the Naga camp; her forever army.

The royal emblem on her chest glinted, and the Utors paused; a Furie of direct royal descent could be troublesome. If not fatal.

Slowly, the duo backed away and succumbed back into their hell hole.

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