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The Woman from the New World – Part 02

As dusk began to fall, their wagon reached the first station on the route.

“That reminds me.” Cecily looked up at the post station beside the terminal. “We met Hilda at a station too.”

Luke, unhitching the horse from the driver’s bench, corrected her with a look of disbelief, “You mean we fought her. You know, after she tried to kill us.”

“Well, that too.”

Around autumn last year, Cecily had traveled to the Militant Nation with Luke for a technical exchange between the Independent Trade City’s blacksmith and the Militant Nation’s sacred swordsmiths.

During that trip, she’d been ambushed by Hilda Cavendish, who back then was still a slave warrior from the Crowd Powers. It wasn’t this exact station where the attack happened, but the building looked so similar that the memory came back easily.

It hadn’t even been a full year since then, and yet it felt