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She thinks petting me is an honor. This is an unexpected position to take for a goddess of slaughter, but I applaud her defiance of convention.

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Kevin Hearne
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: December 9
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
AZ
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Defiance
Take
Convention
Thinking
Slaughter
Goddess
Conventions
Unexpected
Thinks
Petting
Honor
Applaud

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