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If anyone could make a visual representation of Aris's brain right now, it would be of a small hamster running terrified at full speed on a wheel to the point of throwing flames.
If she were to slow down for even a second, Aris had a feeling that she would lose all her strength and fall facedown to the ground. After all, lying to a Vikram was reason enough to end up in prison.
And considering the dark and shady hobbies of jailers like Essam and Lewa, Aris wouldn't last an hour inside.
Any sane person would avoid ending up there at all costs.
Duman, to all this, carefully considered the beast caretaker's words and considered that her statement of the facts was admissible.
Although he had said that he hadn't found Itziar in the stables or the sickbay, this part was actually a lie that he had spouted out to corner Valderik, since he had no way of corroborating whether his words were true or not.