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Outlaw Cloaks #17

The fact that my brother was standing right before me was shocking, but what made me faint was the fact that my brother was supposed to be dead.
I woke up. I was in the same bed as last time. Arren was sitting at a table on the other side of the room, along with that nurse from before. They were talking about something, and they kept glancing in my direction.
Finally Arren walked over to me.
“Hey, kid. How ya doin?”
“Fine, just a little confused, so nothing out of the ordinary…”
“Yeah…”
Something was bothering him. I had only known Arren a short time, but I knew he wasn’t the kind of person who would be sad over nothing.
“What’s wrong?”
“Oh…It,s nothing, really. Nothing to worry about…”
“C’mon, you can tell me.”
“No. I can’t.”
”...Fine.”
“Anyways, don’t you want to know why you’re brother’s here?”
”...No, not really”
“What? You’re brother died, and you saw it, and now he’s here and alive! Doesn’t that bother you?”
“Of course it does! But he’s alive now, and that’s all that matters.”

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