could be a proper family. After all, Butler would accompany me. What could go wrong?FOWL MANORButler opened his eyes. He was home. Artemis was asleep in the armchair beside the bed. The boy looked a hundred years old. It wasn’t surprising after all he’d been through. That life was over now though,
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