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POV: Astan
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Yeah, that's crazy. I was just going for a little piece of that golden statue! And then some weird, crazy cultists showed up."
"Yeah, I saw the memories. At that moment, you were breaking out in a cold sweat, thinking they'd caught you red-handed. Actually, it's amazing how you managed to dodge those monsters and shake them off, and how you managed to get so close to the statues."
"Hehe! It was luck. The guards thought I was a civilian and let me through all their barricades. The situation was so tense that they didn't even notice I wasn't wearing a bracelet."
Yeah, from what I could see, because the attack was so sudden, not all the civilians were able to take shelter in the buildings, and some who didn't evacuate in time were rounded up by the guards and placed behind their lines for protection.
The doppelgänger who was hanging around there was mistaken for a resident and gathered up with the others.
