"Shadow, wake up! They've escaped!" Beta said the next night. Shadow shot up from his sleep. "What? How?"

"I don't know, they can't have done it alone."

"And you need me to go after them, when they're now YOU'RE responsibility." he concluded.

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"Please, Shadow. If Scarlett finds out, we'll be screwed! Just find them!"

Shadow snarled. "Fine, this will be the last time I do it thought, you hear? If this happens again, one of you fuckers need to do it!"

"Okay, fine then. Just promise me you'll bring them back!"

He bolted out of the tower and began his search. They can't have gone far.

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