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They had not brought him near Leaf's growing Bloodlands. They had not brought him near Auri's house. They had not brought him anywhere close to the area where prisoners were breaking stones and preparing the ground for the future city.
Instead, they had taken him deep into one of the empty regions where the Void Land still looked almost exactly as it had before anything began growing inside it.
Rock. Dry earth. Broken hills. Nothing else.
The ground stretched outward for a great distance without a single building, prisoner, plant, or ghouls in sight.
Dickoff stood near the centre of that emptiness.
Or at least he tried to stand.
His condition had become much worse.
