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Now eleven years old, Jill
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Two years have passed since Alicia holed up in the cabin.
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It seems like a long time, but it was only a moment. It's a contradiction, but it really felt like it.
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I read every day.
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If Alicia was getting stronger, I had to get smarter as an assistant standing next to her.
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Finally ....... Finally I can meet Alicia.
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I woke up early in the morning and stood in front of the hut.
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Maybe no one is awake yet.
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It's 3:30 in the morning...... and it's still dark and foggy all over. A little chilly.
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I'm a little taller now, just a little.
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I guess I'm on the small side for an eleven-year-old boy. But my brain is bigger than most.
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I wonder if Alicia has changed.
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Two years of practicing magic in that little wooden hut without speaking a word to anyone?
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...... I don't think I could stand it.
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It shows how strong Alicia's conviction to be a bad girl is.
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I wonder when Alicia will come out.
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In about two hours. I don't mind.
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I can wait a few hours.
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I've been waiting two years to meet Alicia.
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Right after Alicia disappeared, the day seemed so long.
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A single day felt like weeks. I couldn't even get through my favorite books.
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It was Alicia's father who told me that Alicia would be leaving the cabin today.
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Arnold. He has been so good to me.
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He let me use the library whenever I wanted. He even carried me to my room when I fell asleep in the library.
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At first I really hated him. I was really angry at him for giving Alicia those conditions.
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But he was the one who regretted what he had done the most.
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Last night I asked him if he was going to the cabin to pick up Alicia, and he said that it would be better if Jill went with him.
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I had been planning to go from the beginning, but I had not expected Arnold to say so.
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I don't know anything about the current situation at the Academy.
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I have no idea what Cather Liz is doing.
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I only spoke to Henri and Duke a few times a year.
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The rest of the time I was in the library.
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As I was thinking about this in a daze, I heard the door of the hut creak as if it was going to scream.
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My heart starts to beat fast. I'm going to meet Alicia at .......
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All I can hear is the sound of my heart.
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My hands start to sweat. I hold my breath.
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"It's early, Jill. It's been a while."
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I was transfixed by Alicia's appearance. I had goosebumps in an instant.
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My heart had been beating so hard it hurt just a moment before, and then it stopped.
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I froze in a blinding stare.
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The sheer beauty took my breath away.
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Her face had not changed, but the atmosphere was very different from what it had been two years ago.
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A beautiful woman standing in the mist ...... like a goddess who had come down to earth by mistake.
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Her raven wet-feather hair reaches down to her waist and shines as brightly as before. Her golden eyes, never wavering, slightly upturned, are mysterious. Her skin is the color of pure white snow, perhaps because she has never left her hut, and her thin, well-defined, slightly red lips.
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This is what I mean by beautiful.
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She looked into my eyes and I looked at Alicia, stunned.
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Alicia slowly approached me.
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My heart was beating so hard I thought it would burst.
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Up close, Alicia had grown taller. I could see intelligence in her eyes.
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"Jill? You remember who I am, don't you?"
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The tone is a little lighter than before.
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I nodded deeply. This is what it means to be at a loss for words.
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"I have to go somewhere before I meet the others, so come with me."
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I knew it. Your tone is very light.
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Is it because I haven't talked to anyone?
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Alicia then grabbed my arm and started to run.
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