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In the last few days,but bird poo and dust

My friends and I had been cleaning the newly discovered Shadow Guild tower for three days straight, and we still hadn’t made it out of the first room

“How the hell did those pigeons get in here?” I grumbled as I scrubbed at the floor with an ancient ically hidden for hundreds of years, and yet those flying rats still et inside and roost”

“I have no idea” My best friend Mac dragged her forearm across her sweaty brow, her hair tied up in a“But I ht”

I heaved a sigh and looked around the main room of the Shadow Guild tower It was a lot cleaner than it had been, but it had taken us days of scrubbing

“I’ve asked every cleaning company in town” Seraphia, the local librarian and one of orously at the s “They all refused They said the place was still too cursed”

I like it Cordelia, rinned at me from her place on the only chair in the roo in there, and she hadn’t left it since Not close enough to the kebab place though

“Your butt is going to becorab a rag and help me out?”

Cordelia gave a strange little chortling laugh and adjusted herself but didn’t move to help Eve, my Fae friend, would be here after her shop closed to help out, and Quinn would sith Mac when it was time for her shift at the Haunted Hound There were five of us in the new guild—six, if one included Cordelia, which I didn’t since the little freeloader wasn’t doing squat to help But Mac, Quinn, Eve, Seraphia, and I all foret our tower cleaned up if ere going to be official

“I can’t believe all of this has been hidden so long because of Rasla,” Mac said “That bastard”

Rasla had been a council o—one with a serious bone to pick with anyone as different Since the Shadow Guild was comprised of all the weirdos in toho didn’t fit nicely into any other guild, he’d directed his ire right at it, using a coic and malice to wipe it from the history books

“I still have no idea why he hated the guild so h”

Last week, uild, solving one of uildless status, which would have eventually gotten me kicked out of Guild City Mac, Eve, Seraphia, and Quinn had all had guilds, but they’d never fit in well As soon as the Shadow Guild had appeared, it had called to them, a more perfect fit

Noas the five of us, trying to et it cleaned up so that we officially had a Guild Tower Whether or not ould live there was still uncertain Cordelia would mutiny if we moved away from the kebab place, and I liked my new little apartment