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"This place isn't bad."
Nides, or as he was called Sydney Bravens, looked at the sand cave his battle-brothers had found and expressed his satisfaction.
"Let's settle here."
"But we still need to be cautious, we must set up sentries, and rest in shifts."
"I did want to meet Matins, but not by being ambushed by him. We've come a long way, over thirty years now. The decisions back then were made together by all of us, and I've never let down any one of you. Till now, we've only lost one warrior, and I hope that this time, none of us will die."
The other seven men surrounding him didn't respond immediately.
Everyone seemed to have fallen into a kind of silence.
One of them broke the silence: "I'm starting to doubt whether we really should continue like this. Perhaps, it wasn't too bad living as we have for the past thirty-plus years, at least..."
He couldn't even finish his own sentence.
