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where entry and exit from the palace were regulated.
However, Maia had not asked the consent of the High Oracle, she did not intend to either, she had already left the palace earlier in the day,
She did not have any mission or orders taking her out of the palace at this time and she did not want it to be known that she was leaving the palace at such odd hours, she did not have an explanation for it.
When Maia was certain there was no one down the halls
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Maia glanced down the halls of the Oracle's Hall, it was still an hour to dawn and all the junior priestesses residing in this hallway were all asleep as they should have been and those who had been assigned the night meditation had also left for the divination hall.
