Chapters
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The school that had once belonged to the builders was a different place. Gone were the crowds of "students," milling through the halls in the imitations of life. Gone were whole wings of the building, which took up resources without contributing to Sunset's purposes. The physical area of the entire shard had been reduced, from the miles she had been able to wander with Jackie to an area only about twice the size of the school itself. Even then, she'd removed every house, every building, and the simulated…-
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Elliot drove to the diner.He felt a lot better with a heroic dose of cold medicine in his system, reducing his temperature and banishing the sniffles and occasional coughs. He left a brief note to Ruby, explaining that she might have to wait until the end of his shift if she wanted the car.He felt better, but not so much better that he could endure the significant physical strain of a bike across town.Driving through Aurora felt... different, somehow. A strange dread followed him, like knowing he had left…-
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Getting back from the dangerous anti-magic crater proved a far easier task than getting themselves lost in it in the first place. Granted, it was much easier to climb out of the place when every part of it wasn't trying to kill them. They could've flown out, assuming Ocellus was willing to change into something big to carry the two members of their group who couldn't get airborne.But even while she wasn't wielding the scepter herself, she had a feeling that trying to carry it while looking like another…-
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Gilda stared forward at the scroll in her claw, hardly believing her eyes. Of all the places she'd interviewed, the days spent searching with increasing desperation, she hadn't imagined the Ponyville Spa of all places to accept her. But Lotus's dense scroll of hoofwriting was quite clear on that fact—not only was she accepted, but she should come in as soon as possible to begin her training."With the Summer Sun Celebration taking place in Ponyville this year, we anticipate overflow crowds. The position…-
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Whenever Moriah wanted to be alone, she wouldn’t fly. She didn’t want to contaminate her favorite activity with the stains of frequent despair. No; whenever Moriah was taken with such moods, she took to the forest. Illinois had long lost its largest forests before encroaching humans and their farms. Some trees had been permitted to remain however, and some of those were by the country club. With her car parked on an empty road, Moriah could wander into the trees and expect to be left alone as long as…-
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Sunset staggered from the room, feeling as though she’d been physically beaten. There had been no violence in the history class, or at least no violence inflicted on her. She had gone into the class wondering how she would be able to tell if the king had sanitized his history or not. As she stumbled from the room, she no longer had to wonder. She no longer let herself mingle with the crowd of builders, instead jerking herself away, backing up until she was against the wall, before turning and running…
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Lyra almost had it.She’d been stalking this target for hours now, through alleys and dark corners, across one end of the city to the other. Distance and space were malleable things, even more so when she crossed freely between the unseen Shadow and the Material with some regularity.Her hunting partner said nothing of course—words would give away their position, words were the tools of human hunters without access to the supernal weapons they wielded.Capper needed no instructions from her, merely…-
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Evoli watched the army assemble outside her fortress with the eyes of a dozen different drones. On some level it pleased her to see that her rivals had not been so blind and helpless as her initial estimates suggested. Yet they also didn’t take advantage of Evoli’s weakness to come down with crushing force long before the deadline arrived. They had the armies of three great queens, yet she saw none of them. Her new capital in Visuddha’s old hive grew more fortified by the day, alone and…-
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That next week passed in a blur. Once Hayden learned what was planned, it didn't matter what else happened after that—nothing could take her mind from the prospect of seeing her family again. Even fear over the purpose of that meeting couldn't phase her. So maybe there was a boy in another region who thought she was a princess. Maybe when she was older, they would give her away and expect her to do whatever noble ladies did for their husbands. But none of those heavy responsibilities would find…-
169.6 K • Completed
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No terrible danger came to Hayden that day, despite an hour longer than they planned. But once she settled, she had to pose for a picture and meet the chef. Soon there was another frame on the wall, of her posed with her brother. She grinned for it anyway, and slipped a gold coin into her empty bowl on their way out despite the restaurant’s insistence that the meal was free. No danger came against her that afternoon either, when Ilene teleported Julian and Hayden to an empty beach and they played for a…
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169.6 K • Completed
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