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Table of Contents
The Table of Contents: A list of related stories in order. Since I’m writing out of order, probably necessary for making sense of things.
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Ride to Dinner
We’re friends, Nina echoed. My first real friend, not approved by my family. She found herself smiling back too, feeling a little silly but also happy.
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I tried making a banner.
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Omelettes
I need to think of a way to advertise my store.
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Moving Day
Blucini told herself this was the right thing to do. With what had happened, she couldn’t hide in this mansion forever and avoid all contact with the outside world until the hysteria and suspicion passed. She needed a normal life and normal interaction. She couldn’t live the life of a caged pretty bird feranoth, its wings forever clipped.
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Flute Lessons
There was a stool set up for her to sit on, an empty musical stand, and another chair where her teacher would sit.
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A Part of Life
Proud of her plant, she brought it to show-and-tell the next day. She forgot it there, where it then stayed abandoned in the hallway for the next week, shriveled and died.
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tried drawing Frell angry
angry Frell
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Breaking Down Barriers
Nina grew up in a rural milieu, which shaped her preconceptions and biases against townsfolk. That didn’t change until she was away from her family while finishing up her education – and lived inside the boundaries of that same town.
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Walking Lesson
He took another step. She released his hand. Two more steps and he teetered again. She grabbed under his shoulder and held him before he fell over.
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Living Up to Her
He would be the first one to walk into the newly-excavated building. He had received the letter the other day and it promised him that right.
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Cataclysm
The dishes and plates jumped up from the table, bouncing around and the glass fell the floor, covering the woken mats in broken glass. They screamed. Xandri leapt up.
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Reflections In The House
They were planning to infiltrate a really old house rumored to be haunted. The building was so ancient, it was closed off with a high fence and signs with warnings on them.
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Some side characters
Art of minor characters Zoya the nudibranch and Azio the deer
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A Gray Day Ails
The bell above the shop door tinkled as it opened. Frell looked over casually. Her eyes widened at the uncommon sight: some kind of colorful underwater slug slithered inside. Definitely not something she usually saw on land here.
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All The Fun
Atlas picked himself back up again. The problem had to be in the gears operating the flap of the wings. He might have tightened them too much. He went back to his workbench, took it off, adjusted the tension and put the straps back on. He made sure to add a little lubricant around the moving parts, in case that was the issue.
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Here In The Blink of An Eye
Worse, something was creating some new kind of noise and I didn’t like it at all. It was like echoey watery whispers any time it was misty or cloudy. It filled my senses during the thickest parts of moonrise. I needed my sleep!
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A Dance in the Den
The aunt’s face lit up with pure joy and recognition. “Yes! It is good to rekindle. Please eat the pie, while it is still hot. It’s not as good the next day. I hope you like it. It was nice to meet you.”
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Things That Fall From the Sky
The stars were gone. Well, some of them. All above overheard, in some kind of impossibly larger black shape. The shower of trails of falling stars in the other regions of the sky outlined it distinctly.
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Terranmeda Pelixus
Sketch of a two-legged raptor-like arctic fox
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Busy Little Helper
“Hold on.” Blucini was holding the jar of fish chunks over her head as Steed tried climbing up her body to get to them. Nina just laughed and didn’t help at all. “Do something!”
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Waiting is Hard Sometimes
Temnochi has a cup of tea on a cold, diffcult morning.
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Lesson Learned
Most of the other children where she lived had instruction in useful skills and practical abilities and here she was, just learning a bunch of useless dusty old facts she’d never be expected to remember or use in the future…
Ominous curses are spreading through the quiet town of Mistseek. She just wanted to open a magic shop.
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