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Joe sat crossed legged on the floor, staring at the seven crooked lines next to him in a daze.
This was how he enumerated the number of days he had been here.
For every day that had passed, he would dig a line in the ground.
It had now been seven days.
Joe did not want to think about whether Farrina was still alive or whether Lorenzo was still torturing her. His heart ached every time these questions came floating into his mind.
Joe started to wonder if he had made the wrong choice.
Sean had indeed promised him to send the message to the King of Graycastle. He also treated Joe fairly well. However, Graycastle was, after all, too far away from the Kingdom of Wolfheart. It would take at least a month for the King of Graycastle to receive the message, make a decision and send his troops to the Kingdom Wolfheart, and probably even longer if he was to discuss the matter with his ministers before taking actions.
