I think it’s b because it says that sleep was hiding from him until he experienced pain
B, because the villagers keep trying to outdo each other by speaking more powerful about the empress.
their environment contributed to their actions because they lived on an island and they had to do certain things in order to survive and yes there is an animal.
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I'm not too sure but a guess would be that pain is temporary, and that sooner or later the pain would go away. The quitting part I would think means I quit trying to forget to take away the pain maybe.
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