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an angry woman yelled at her husband. It took me a while to notice but the people did the same things over and over again. I counted that same child trip over the same toy ten times. It was almost like they were stuck in time but that was impossible. Time loops were rare and casting one was suicide since the caster would also be stuck in the loop. I kept watching until Darian returned at sundown with dinner, the same dinner as last night. He told me about the same things as yesterday without realizing he was repeating himself. This time I pretended to sleep and just lay in the dark and was consumed by my thoughts.
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Day two was the exact same, down to every detail. Darian went to the temple, the
people were still stuck in that same loop. A child tripped over a toy, a woman swept the marble floor while humming, a man trimmed off dead leaves and an angry woman yelled at her husband. Darian returned at sundown and brought the same god damned dinner. Talked about the same things and went to bed at the same time. I sat in my bed in the dark mulling over my initial time loop theory. This had to be one, otherwise how would you explain this? It wasn’t a curse or spell because I would have also been affected by now. I needed to figure out what was happening and fast or be stuck in this endless cycle forever. The moon was high in the sky and I could sneak around better at night so I decided to investigate that holy presence and the strange inhabitants of the village. Carefully I put weight on my ankle and walked around the room. I had an ability that healed wounds three times faster than normal so by now the sprain was healed. There were no guards anywhere in the hostel so sneaking out was simple. The Temple was easy