Note: Edited this chapter on 29/12/23. Minor fixes and edits.
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"Wisdom, dodge!" Liara yelled.
I ducked in time to escape the bronze blade sent my way by the murderous-looking automaton bearing down on me. Staring up at its steam-punk body—metal knobs, screws, and all manner of pipes wrapped around a blackened doll of gnarly wood—I couldn't imagine this robot of death was the easy level of the Chamber of Dangers' training system.
"Is this truly training or some sadist's playhouse?!" Talia yelled from somewhere in the rear.
"Stop talking and keep running!" Liara ordered.
Yep, finding ourselves in the thick of danger had pushed back the angsty teenager my fiancé had become since she'd turned into a vampire—which I now realize must come with the territory—and Liara was all business again, leading us through the many dangers growing around us.
"Um, help!" Andromeda cried.
