It was hard to stay calm when the World tilted and suddenly his back was against the wall. Was hard not to remember the last time a Dhaoine had pressed their forearm against his throat and held him against rough stone, face inches from his own. Was hard to breathe passed the rising panic that choked his …
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The whole City trembled as though some great beast had shifted beneath it. She frowned and looked around them. They were in the City square where the merchants used to set up. But where once there'd been stalls spread across several open blocks of cobblestone, there was just emptiness now. As though when her kè had sunk his …
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She stood in the doorway, shoulder tucked against the jamb, arms wrapped around her middle. Part of her was thankful that everyone else was in the front of the house discussing logistics or some such shit. Another part of her wished there was a guard on the door to keep her away like they had …
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They chittered happily. It wasn't quite the Question they needed asked but it was close enough. Got them one step closer to freedom. Now they just needed to get everyone in place so that when the Question was asked for real, they could hear the Answer and act. Soon. So very soon. And then they'd be really free and …
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"He cannot go there, Sheieh. Do you fucking hear me?" Relyt ducked back around the corner and flattened himself against the wall, listening intently because that was Lílrt's voice. "Aye, my Lord, but we aren't due there for another three days?" His Guardian sounded upset but not in the normal way. "We were only just now beginning …
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Despite the warnings from both Xitlali and Hujiel, let alone the guards who were stood at intervals along the hallway, outside the door, and at either end of the hallway, he pushed into Rhyshladlyn's room. Watched half distractedly as the door slowly slumped towards the ground before landing with a dull thud, utterly ripped off its hinges. Then …
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There had always been myths, whispered Stories about them, but never had she believed they were real. After all, the last sighting of one in its truest form had been eons before her great-grandfather's birth. But yet for all that she had thought the Stories to be exaggerations, for all that she had thought them to be …
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It had been far easier than he'd expected to get out of Xitlali's compound. Even easier to scramble up the retaining wall that stood nearly twenty feet high all around it and drop to the other side before anyone could stop him, if they even saw him to begin with. Though honestly it wasn't really …
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His older brother blew through the door before Sheieh had even gotten passed saying Relyt's title, one hand flippantly waving a dismissal at the Guardian who turned narrowed eyes at him. Knowing it wasn't worth the time to argue with the other male, Relyt shook his head at the Guardian's unspoken question. Sheieh narrowed his …
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Did they know they had put him in the same room he'd been in before the juggling match of locations had begun months ago? Did they know that no one had destroyed the notes that he'd had strewn across the desk, written in a language no one but he could read? Probably not because if …
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