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"You sent me a hundred dollars?" The taxi man hollered into the air, definitely happy. "Thank you, thank you." He bowed, almost hitting his head on the window of his car."It's alright, sir," Isaiah said. "It's just a little gift to compensate you for wasting your time. We're really sorry.""Nonsense!" The man cheered heartily. "I should be the one calling you sir now, don't you think? It's alright. Thank you. And I am sorry for yelling at you."The man waved them goodbye. He was probably thinking of taking the entire day off to treat himself to some place nice. Isaiah turned around to face his friends. They stared at him with mouths "What?" He asked."Well, it seems you have a lot of money to throw around, though," Jackson observed."Well, that..." Isaiah found a suitable way to change the topic. "Guys, I need to go inside now. I am in pajamas. I really have to have some bath and freshen up. It's been two days now."Jackson and Luke burst out laughing. "You mean you haven't take
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"So which do we go to first?" Jackson asked. "Do we go to the police to report the case first, or do we report to the Chancellor? Also the HOD of your department.""What do we even say to the police?" Jenny asked. "We don't even have proof that he was kidnapped. The only thing we know is that he is missing. I don't know if the Chancellor would be chanced enough to receive our complaint. And I don't think our present HOD Professor Strathmore, would give a rat's ass about Isaiah. He might even be happy about it. The man doesn't like Isaiah.""So what do you now suggest we do, Jenny?" Jackson submitted. "You've said all of this but we do not have a solution yet.""Argh!" Luke gnawed at his own teeth, terribly annoyed that Jenny and Jackson were going to stand there doing nothing but chatter and batter about how to help their friend. He began walking away, with heavy steps on the floor; everytime his feet clashed with the floor, he was a greater distance away from his peers, who he now r
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The room was quiet except for the faint hum of Chance’s laptop. He had been at it for hours—digging, cross-referencing, running through databases that only a handful of people in New York even knew how to access.The name Stannis Holdings had come up again and again, each time like a ghost whispering from the shadows. It was a company that technically existed, yet didn’t—not in the way ordinary corporations did. Its records were sealed behind layers of legal firewalls. Every attempt to pierce through had led to locked doors, restricted archives, or dead ends that had been scrubbed clean years ago.But Chance was patient. And when patience wasn’t enough, he was resourceful.There was something about the Stannins' holdings that was just so unsettling in its own way. The fact that they had just come out of no where to bid for Acherlands with an outrageous bid was more than enough reason for him to feel that there was something playing in the shadows that was more thank just a business r
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Isaiah's first and last night in the town that time forgot was a bag of troubles. Some hours before the sun was completely eaten by the west side of the far horizon, he had said, "it's getting extremely late. Where do we sleep?"Elena ignored him, throwing a look to a side of the room where she wouldn't see his face."Oh, there's plenty of room in the town," Tanuk said. "We just have to find one for you and Elena to be in.""What?" Isaiah asked sharply. "Yes? I was implying that we find a worthy room for the both of you to be in.""Why? Can't I just have my own place?" Isaiah was greatly aggravated by the prescription. "Why do I have to share it with her?""Isaiah... Lord Isaiah..." Tanuk called out in a more reverent tone, "if you don't stay in the same room, you will give the townspeople a bad image of the both of you. And these people have lived for such a long time in these conditions, all hoping for a time when the prophecy would come to pass and their Lady Elena would be happy
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Luke and Jackson had woken up that morning with the sun streaming through the open window Isaiah had left when he fled through the roof to go meet Elena. At first, it had seemed as though he had just gone out extremely early for class, but soon it hit them that their friend and schoolmate was nowhere to be found."Where could he be?" Luke asked, thrashing around the place. "He took his phones with him.""He did?" His friend, Jackson, asked. "Well, this is strange. What do you think must have happened to him?"Luke pulled himself out from under a bed, his face now tightly squeezed, angry. "I have a hunch. I think Isaiah has been kidnapped.""I don't think that's possible," Jackson said, adjusting his glasses. "What do you mean kidnapped? He was right in this same room sleeping. How could anyone have come here from the window without us noticing anything? I don't believe such a thing happened. From what I can tell of him, he might actually really have just gone on a long stroll.""Well,
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"A servant of Elena, huh?" Isaiah asked in irony. "Let me guess, she sent you here to convince me to join her mad circus, didn't she?" "No," Kate said. "Elena hasn't sent me on anything..." She was sitting down on the steps below the building before standing to look Isaiah in the eyes. "You just told me you were her servant, so why should I believe what you're saying?" "Being her servant doesn't mean I am here to convince you of anything. Moreover, you can hide all you want. You can run and leave, but you can't really escape your destiny. We don't force that on you, do we?""It seems forcing it on me has been the only thing you've been doing so far..."Kate sighed. "You haven't understood this yet, have you?" She asked.She was wrong. Isaiah understood it perfectly, and perhaps, even more so than Kate herself. But his problem was not the aspect of understanding it, but that the project, in its entirety, was extremely contradictory to all the values that had been taught to him from
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