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Extract from ‘The Fool: A Tale of The Skinshifter and His Prince’ by Cheyenne Taylor-Guest

Hull College, East Yorkshire, 2021

I was nothing more than a puppet. I saw everything that happened, yet I couldn’t stop anything. I was a viewer in my own mind. The fear that filled her eyes, the other warriors that joined in steps behind her. In a split second none of that mattered. Not their bravery. Not their sacrifice, not even their loyalty but their eyes. Their simple human eyes. They were all on the floor, but their eyes were gone. Replaced with a dark abyss. One that even the mighty Zephula wouldn’t dig himself out of...

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