with us to watch the minutes of this night

[Valentine Valiant]

Sorry about the wait, I've had too much going on lately.

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Four years in the sense of a canine was quite a long time. Even longer when broken down to say “one thousand four hundred sixty days”; sixteen seasons; two hundred eight weeks. The mathematical idea of it all hadn't even really occurred to Valentine, but it was still quite a long time as far as he was concerned. He was almost sorry to admit to himself that he had forgotten a vast majority of his time spent in Syemv's house, or the few times that he had ventured away from the land itself. Memories were somewhat fickle like that though, there one minute and gone the next. Often all it took was a break in the train of thought. Yet his expression conveyed surprise from the moment that Tayui said the word ‘fourth’ and he readily commented on such. “That's quite a long time. You must know a lot about the history of this place,” which was almost silly to state, unless she was some sort of skunk-striped reclusive that had only lived in the caverns and before that, deep in the evergreen thickets that dotted the sides of the sunken mountain. “How long has Jaded Shadows been here, anyway?”

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