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Pultine eventually cooled as she levitated in a corner of the formation. Her wings flapped in a blur at her back and her arms were crossed at her chest as Yana finished construction of the armor. Pultine often slept that way and she was asleep as she cooled because burning at such a high temperature…
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Yana leaned against the dark anvil in a corner of the formation, inspecting her tools that dangled from hooks on the wall as the forge blazed and sent waves of heat through the comfortable coolness of the large space. Her long, webbed fingers were nimble, even with the sharp talons at the ends of each,…
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“The siafu are everywhere on the disc,” one of the gold digger ants explained to Rusa. “But only chosen leaders are allowed in the Chamber of the Unseeing All-knowing, so we are the only diggers who come here. We are the siafu crowns.” “What exactly is this place?” Rusa asked. The majority of the gold…
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“We are navigating the rock formations,” Pultine whispered, narrating the scene for Rusa who had no real appreciation for the journey on which he and Pultine embarked into the darkness of the Chamber of the Unseeing All-knowing. “Can that thing see with those shiny eyes?” Rusa whispered. They were walking because it was easier to…
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“I pride myself on my strength,” Rusa Gawol said shakily, the light from the torch he bore quivering against the dark cave walls as he failed to control his nerve and calm the fear that made him tremble. He kept close to Pultine in the smothering darkness that was only interrupted by the light from…
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Remarkable – Issue 13 – A Lesson in Failure
Paul Young stood in the dense woods as the rain and winds raged through the tree trunks. Despite the chaos around him, his senses were finely turned to detecting the presence of a razew. He knew their scent, and he could feel the heat generated by their bodies over long distances. He honed these senses…
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Remarkable – Issue 12 – Wazad and the Boys
Before Wazad reinforced the barrier around the garden where Tolot slept in his tree to keep him contained and undetectable to anyone looking for him through arcane means, and before she opened a portal next to Paul’s large truck next to the lake where it was parked, she sat inside a room of the Museum…
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Remarkable – Issue 11 – Allies of the Razew
“Are you sure this is the right room? There’s so many on each floor, who knew there were so many mentally unstable humans with dangerous abilities. This planet is so unpredictable.” “This is it,” an odd man said, gazing through the window on one of the doors in the hallway. “He’s sitting up in bed,…
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Sun of the Morning – Can’t Tell Me Nothing (Kanye West) Part 3 of 3
“…please blame it on the Son of the Morning” – Jay-Z “I got into that summer program at Berklee,” Brandon said to his cousin while Lincoln sat on the lawn chair underneath the covered driveway at Snot’s house. He was speaking to Snot, but he knew that Lincoln was listening and he was hoping to…
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Come Close 9. Untouchable (Anomalie, India Carney)
“I haven’t been avoiding you,” uncle Thomas insisted. We were in his apartment in Brooklyn, the playlist I had made for him played in the background and we were just sitting down to dinner. I love being in his apartment, so much so that I try to recreate the aesthetic of his space on my…