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They flew for some time. Lane wasn't sure exactly how long, though he found that he didn't care. It wasn't anything like flying with Korina. His concentration wasn't eroding over time, like a final exam that continued until his brain finally gave out and he collapsed. That didn't happen now. The air was cold, but the chill of it didn't bother him the way it did as a cat. His body was tiring over time, but not as much as he expected. The company of so many others was…-
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Autumn Blaze led them to Hono's larger buildings. Lotus hadn't even seen it at first, concealed behind many layers of trees on the outskirts of the village. Up close it was impossible to miss: a castle, albeit of a decidedly nonwestern style. Its foundation was entirely of stone, rising up a few stories before floors of wooden walls. Each had its own steepled roof, higher than the last. It opened in only one place, where a pair of stern-looking kirin watched a gate into a tiny internal courtyard.…-
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Quinn did not return to Absentia to find the refuge did not exist, because Mew and the offshoot species were living together in harmony. But if he had, maybe there would be some world-destroying paradox to kill them all. Instead, he found a city. Nowhere near as large as Starfall, or as advanced. But instead of shelters and tents with the occasional stone building, Quinn found a city of submerged domes and underground boulevards. Thousands of Pokémon lived there—many Mew, but more other things. Some…-
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Lane didn't get nearly as much sleep as she would've hoped for that night, considering what was waiting for them in the morning. But Elisa obviously needed a simpler kind of support. There was no way she wouldn't be there for her, even if it made her a little weaker tomorrow. Besides, there was Cedar's other instructions lingering in her mind, keeping her awake even after Elisa finally stopped squirming. She couldn't make the trip as herself, or else invoke the wrath of enemies…
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Lotus stumbled forward, hurrying over to embrace Iron. She hugged him as tight as she could, not caring about what it might do to the silk dress. "Iron! I thought you were still a prisoner!"He shrugged. "Your new friend put in a good word for me. Because of you, I'm pretty sure." Without a fancy outfit, Iron could still hold her with one of his feathery wings. He didn't smell like dirty trail and blood anymore. They hadn't given him flowery perfume, but she wouldn't want that anyway. The natural spell of…
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Quinn didn't leave that night. Yet no matter how much he didn't want to leave, he could make no argument to Avery's reasoning. To stay meant undermining her efforts to foster a new, more merciful faction among the Mew of Starfall. They could never learn that the cat arguing for a forced separation and exile for the persistent variants also had a family with one! Every goodbye hurt—but one most of all. Mew lived a long time, he should see his mate and daughter again. Once he traveled…
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It was night in the strange field where humans were forbidden to go. That was no problem anymore, now that there were no humans around. After a whole day of little green and white bodies crowding close to Elisa, questioning her so vigorously about the outside world that their voices blended together—Lane finally got them to leave her alone. There was only one way to do it: carry Elisa and the pokéball back up to the ruined house. "We're leaving at sunrise tomorrow," Cedar said, the…
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Lotus stared stupidly back at her reflection in Autumn’s mirror. Any second now this vision would end and she would wake up. She'd be Eric again, smacking his phone to stop the awful beeping of his alarm before another dismal day of work on the factory floor. Then he'd drive home again to a beat up old house he could barely pay for, and do it all again.Lotus's reflection remained, no matter how long she looked back. Her borrowed silk dress remained, dark patterns broken by a splash of white from the…
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Their home wasn't on the platform itself, technically. Like so many others who worked in terraforming, their place of residence was somewhere in the territory they were assigned to work. Each one was temporary, built of sturdy modules on springs and jointed legs that kept them from the ground. Some Mew had huge walls and defense systems, but Quinn and Avery felt no need for that. They'd grown up with the "wild" Pokémon, and had no reason to fear them. The home was a mismatch of…
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They could talk! Technically, Quinn could always talk, but only at that moment could Avery make sense of what he was saying. It meant his attempt to talk to her had worked, that the mental connection he felt was real. He wouldn’t waste that chance. "He's not the only one here from the funding organization," Quinn said, gesturing down at the fallen guard. "They had a whole team here to protect their particle trap. A dozen people across the campus. I think we blew it up." Avery…
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