Lonely Oak Chapter 96 - If She Haddaway
There were last-minute card trades under the pressure of time as a ploy of leverage. there were hurried arrangements of sleepovers and weekend get-togethers.
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Then again, maybe it wasn't a ploy at all. thinking back, he recalled all the times she had insisted that porter was innocent. the chimera child, tick, had done the same.
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Or just a ploy by the archfey lady, if that was even who she was? but... in his heart, he knew it was true, somehow. his intuition was typically good, but this felt different, like a weight settled in his stomach.
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This ploy is so obvious, he must know everyone sees through it. do you think he suspects?" "of course he does." cadan said simply. "your father is one of the most efficiently brutal and brilliant minds of our time.
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He knew her ploy and unfortunately it had worked. astounded at his own behavior he released her and ran, his legs pumping furiously to gain distance between the vile tormentor he knew was right.
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It seems they had ben sent here to deliver a message for the dark emperor, but all what but seemed as an assassination ploy, was uncovered and had failed. the two males had a very close resemblance to the escapee.
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Perhaps this was all a ploy!" "perhaps it was." said vinshu with a sly smirk as she began walking away. "she needs to entertain herself somehow. who knows how long it will take for her father and brother to arrive?"
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It had been a ploy on ridding the streets of homeless and the unwanted, by forcing them into slavery. now they where slowly becoming common, although some still opposed it like him others where slowly being coxed into accepting it.
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I need to know if that is true, or just a ploy to rope me in." "pledge, and i will tell you what i know." otho said impatiently. arwi took a deep breath, said a little prayer in her head and solemnly pronounced: "i will join you."
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She growled, not believing this ploy. a dragon that didn't wish to garner favors or treasures from other dragons? crazy. "one that treasures people and books far more than gold and favors." he replied softly with a whine.
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A few minutes later, though, the young male surprises crimsa by offering to wash the evening's ceramics, though she quickly realizes it to be a ploy to make himself look like the perfect male for their daughter- she counters this by simply shaking her head
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"not a bad ploy, but i hope you didn't really think sprinkling it on my face would be enough to stop me?" "i did it to get your attention," stark said. his voice was low and he spoke slowly, menacingly.