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The blackness spread out before her, thick and unyielding. She wasn't afraid of running headlong into it; weeks of using the dark to her advantage had lent it a certain amount of familiarity.

She whipped around the corner, heading for the entrance to the cell block, but her footfalls produced no sound. Assassin's training had been one of the Nakatsukasas' specialties, and she... she would always be a Nakatsukasa, no matter what.

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