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Time blurred. Elise couldn’t say how long it took for Harley to return, flanked by a squadron of guards in gold uniforms. They brought stretchers, one for each pony, and forced even her to lie down. They passed through a dark temple, through twisting caverns lit only by flashlights in the gloom. Mesmerizing lights flickered in front of her eyes. An hour or two of uneasy sleep on the Temple floor had done very little to overcome the fatigue of battle. Eventually, she slept.For most of her life, Special…-
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Find Another Way in (63%)They did not have very far to go, really. Another half hour and they were already getting close to Denver.Close enough that the signs of recent trouble were visible everywhere. In the diffuse scattering of neighborhoods and towns that fed into the city, there were dark buildings and empty streets. They drove over the fading remnants of many leaflets, scattered as though they'd been dropped by aircraft. Some clung to trees or smeared the tops of buildings, waiting for rain that…-
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Dear Journal,I think I better get these details down before I forget them (or else go completely insane). If you (probably just me) notice that I’ve switched from pen-written entries to typed ones glued awkwardly into the book, know that I have a very good reason for that decision.Actually, I’m using the text-to-speech on my laptop, this entry won’t be typed. Why? That’s an excellent question! Because I can’t. Can’t, you ask? Why could that be? Well, now you’ve asked the right question. Not…-
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Things went more or less back onto the schedule after that. Lady Moonstone presented her to Julian, then returned her to the Shaymin table. Most of the plant-foxes there were strangers to her—she hadn't even known the family had enough people to fill their own table. "That melting thing was killer, sapling," one of them said. Hayden didn't know him, though he wasn't much older than Eleanor. At least, he didn't look much older. "Little morbid, but—damn. Quick way to…-
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Try to Salvage the Relationship (71%)Elliot hadn't gone out to rescue this girl, risking arrest and worse, only to give up on what they had together after the first sign of trouble. We're going to fix this. We just have to last until then.Things would get worse before they got better, but that was a problem for the future.Elliot lingered outside the shower for a few seconds, either talking himself into something very stupid, or psyching himself up to do something daring. Not that it would've been difficult…
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“I can’t believe you’d let a crazy walk all over you like that,” Solar Wind muttered, shoving the paper card into her pocket. “Weren’t you threatening me with all kinds of crazy things, like… yesterday?”It was still night, so at least there weren’t many other creatures in the transfer station. A few food carts sat dark and cold against the wall, but here the lights all worked and the benches were freshly cleaned. Magpie made her way towards the stairs, leading up to the Starseed line. The…-
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“I don’t have a bucking clue why he trusts you,” Goldleaf muttered, as they left the Tower behind. There were sets of air-armor available for both of them, but they’d both decided against bringing any. Neither of them really needed the protection, but plenty of creatures in the Constabulary might.That meant they trudged across the moon’s surface with nothing but Goldleaf’s bubble, lit with the steady glow of his magic. It was enough to keep any bats from shadow-stepping within sword’s reach,…
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Hayden found Lin on the beach, half buried by the rocky barrier around the port. Her body was paler than Hayden had ever seen it. In death, the steady breaking of waves finally gave her a proper bath. There was no telling exactly what injury had caused it—dark marks around her neck, or maybe other bruises elsewhere. Maybe it was none of those, and instead the empty glass bottle vanished into the rocks beside her. Hayden sat on her knees in the sand beside the wall, staring at the remains of her old best…
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Akiko's tea shop was in ruins. Whoever had come through obviously worked deliberately, shattering and smashing as much as they could. Glass cases displaying loose-leaf tea in delicious varieties were shattered onto the ground, letting the leaves mix freely. The reading corner furniture was broken, with its shelves toppled sideways spilling the books everywhere.She felt at one of the shelves as she approached, dodging around the piles of broken glass along the way. The shelves were solid oak, each one much…-
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What was it supposed to feel like to become captain of a ship? Blake stood on the high deck, just beside the helm. They'd stripped away much of the pirate's handiwork—he didn't need or want a ship with a cabinet carved into the shape of a nude, supplicating horse-creature, and they'd sanded away all the images of skulls and severed heads and other imposing imagery.Really, he was just glad that nobody had brought up his failure in booking this ship when a simple trip up here would've revealed exactly what…-
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