Malware: A Cultivation Academy Series (Bastion Academy Book 2)
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“Get under the table!” I screamed over the noise and slid down my chair. I remembered the training from school and followed through the motions with fear as my friends crowded around me at the center of the thick wood table. I wrapped my arms around them, putting our heads together.
“It’s going to be okay,” I whispered softly, knowing it wasn’t true, as the white and the sound swallowed us up.
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Acknowledgements
TO EVERYONE WHO’S STRUGGLING to do something hard. Keep at it. <3
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Malware is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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About me... I'm a baller. Keyboard crawler. 20 inch display, on my ink scrawler. Holler. Getting flayed tonight, all my characters getting splayed t
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