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... shaft that ended in a plain concrete floor a hundred feet below. If you flew off the track, you were basically dead unless you had some way to slow down your fall.

The colosseum said this was to discourage cheating by going off track and taking a short cut, but I think the real reason was they liked the spectacle of it. People didn’t fall off often, but when they did, it made a big splash, for lack of a better way of saying that.

Technically, there wasn’t any rule against taking ...

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“Now… where should I put you both?” he asked casually, not expecting a reply. “It’s regretful that I only have one chandelier.”

“Underneath my bed? No, no, too dirty. My dust bunnies don’t deserve this,” Atticus mused to himself. “The mantlepiece? How about the vanity table? I suppose if I lop off one of your heads I could mount it over… Wife, which head do you want to stare at while you do your hair?”

“Atticus!” Daphne screamed. “I don’t want any heads! Let them go.”

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Daphne gasped, horrified. This man, her husband, had just killed two men with a flick of his finger, as though he was snuffing out candles.

“I told you to let them go!” Daphne cried out.

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