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with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients

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she's worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travellers in a jungle teeming with all the ghostly monsters of Jamaican legend

When Ulla hears of a project to help half-blood trolls

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