Chapter Fourteen: Seeds of Culmination

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POV: Lavender

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I don’t know why I expected the tattooed man to stand in place or fight me again. I even half expected him to make me eat the seeds, but he didn’t. He stepped back and faded into the crowd just far enough he could still watch the action.

The surrounding men didn’t circle me. They didn’t grow fangs and become monsters. They just smiled at me. Most watched me like the man with the tribal collar. ...