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Aelia's Obsession With Her Father

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His sudden repeating of the word made even the breath stop in her throat. That tone of his was as cold and hard as the iron sword he fought with. Her lips parted a moment as she hesitated, letting him have his moment of...whatever that emotion was. Aelia never feared her father the way some less fortunate Spartan children did. For as fierce and protective and tight his grip sometimes was, Aelia had always understood her father - had studied the ways his face shifted, his voice inflected, the glint in his eyes...she knew when he was truly upset with her and when he was acting out of some deep paternal instinct. And right then she would sense he was...upset. But about what she wasn't entirely sure. But even so, as he approached her in the
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