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The morning of the plan was at hand. They had had a nice enough dinner the night before and gone their separate ways, but Arla - sans her flute - was out on the same balcony again. The biting chill outside the temple was temporarily refreshing against the heat of the academy inside.
She went over the plan in her head again as the doors slid open to reveal Caer's arrival.
Hey, you ready? she asked. The time was rapidly approaching and hopefully they could pull this off quickly and without a hitch. Things seldom went that smoothly, though, did they? Except here they really weren't supposed to be killing people, which could make it all a little more complicated. She was sure it wouldn't come to that.
She slipped back in through the doors next to him and started almost immediately toward the archives. It was quite clear that now she was all business, treating this with the same gravity she would treat a mission for the Empire. It was... helping the Empire in its own way. Yeah, definitely for sure.
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