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set after the ddm thread.
He hadn't gone back to the mansion, yet, since returning from Dahlia de Mai's borders. Embarrassment had kept him away, and refusal to admit how stupid he'd been. Anger boiled in his blood, foreign to him, and he ignored it for lack of understanding, and bound his arm the best he could from a short description in a book he was carrying. It would heal wrong if he didn't get it true help, soon, and then he'd be permanently ruined. But even the fool had his pride. Instead Giggle paused where he was by the caves and lay down in the dirt. A jolt of pain shot up his shoulder and he shoved it aside, stretching out his legs and staring up into the stars above. How stupid he'd been, to think that Inferni had been wrong about wolves. They were dumb and cruel, and he'd paid the price, so tonight he'd suffer the elements in shame, alone.
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