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Lyria was not as filthy as Alyssa had imagined a medieval city to be. Maybe that was a bit rude or insensitive to the people who lived here, but just the fact that they lacked indoor plumbing had to mean they didn’t have decent sanitation. But Lyria had a river that ran right next to it. A river that apparently collected a great deal of waste. She could only hope that they took their drinking water from upstream. Far far upstream. According to Bacco, there were cisterns around that collected rainwater…-
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Alyssa shoveled spoonful after spoonful of warm porridge into her mouth. After two weeks of living off nothing but stale bread and the occasional soupy stew at villages, having something with a bit more sustenance than water was almost making her drool. She could understand Yzhemal’s complaints about her attitude toward good food much better now. Once again, Alyssa had her back to a wall, seated in a corner of the inn’s dining area underneath the second floor balcony where she could watch both…
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Once again, Alyssa awoke feeling like she hadn’t slept for more than an hour. For some reason, she had a feeling that doing so would become a trend in this world. It wasn’t for fear that a harpy would sneak into her cave and murder her in her sleep this time. No need to sneak in when there was already a harpy sitting in the back of the cave. After removing the arrow, she had set to cleaning the harpy’s wound. Luckily, it came out clean and without damaging anything else. Using a scrap of a blanket…
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Never before had Alyssa wished so much for a cup of coffee. Or any caffeinated drink, really. She didn’t usually have coffee in her mornings, but today would have been an exception. As much as she wanted some stimulant, picking up anything local might not go over so well. Even had she been back at the inn, asking Yzhemal for something didn’t sound appealing. The punk rocker girl was still fresh in her mind. Who knew what sort of drugs they had in this time period. Alyssa had no intentions of…
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Three burgers stood tall on Yzhemal’s nicest wooden plates. Buns, ketchup, meat, lettuce, and tomato. Alyssa had skipped over onions, cheese, pickles, and many other things that she might otherwise have. With the brothers so used to such bland food, she didn’t want to overwhelm them. Given the lack of tomatoes anywhere, she felt fairly certain that the ketchup and tomato slices alone would be exotic enough for them. To further enhance the tomatoes, each plate had roughly a third of a tomato sitting to…
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While Alyssa had discovered that she really didn’t care for the company of angels no matter the color of their clothes, there was one unfortunate fact about missing out on Iosefael carrying, or magicking, her around the world. She had to pass through Teneville. Well, she didn’t have to. She could have gone around. But that would have added both time and discomfort to her trip. For the last week, Alyssa had been living out of her home, eating proper food, enjoying the regulated temperature, regular…
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“You’re Alyssa Meadows?” Alyssa stared at the angel, wondering how she should act. If she was anything like Tenebrael, a bat wasn’t going to do much good. Neither would a gun. However, Tenebrael was clearly the evil twin of the two, what with her dressing in all black and taking people’s souls. So, deciding to be mildly hospitable, she lowered the bat and nodded her head. Radiance beamed from the angel’s sudden smile as her wings carried her right in front of Alyssa, definitely breaking…
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Home sweet home. Sort of. Seeing it surrounded by grass with the wooden fence cut off a few feet away from the walls in a perfectly smooth line gave it an uncanny feeling. Even more eerie, it felt empty. Alyssa hadn’t gone inside yet, but just looking at it from where the street should be, it held an air about it like it was lost to time. Though it was actually from the future, relative to the technology level she had seen anyway. It was a shame the driveway had been left behind. Since both of…
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“You kill them! All the pilgrims who come here, you kill them!” Yzhemal turned to look at Lazhar. Lazhar turned to look at Yzhemal. Alyssa ground her teeth together, staring at the two brothers as they turned back to face her. She had been in a stupor after the ceremony. Finding her unmoving as the bodies were being carted off somewhere, Lazhar had walked her back to the inn. Only when he had sat her down at the counter and Yzhemal poured her a drink did she finally snap out of it. “You…
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Alyssa wobbled back and forth, nearly collapsing to the floor until that sudden feeling of wrongness that came with falling jolted her awake. Yzhemal worked her hard the night before. Waiting tables wasn’t exactly difficult work. The menu only had five items on it; porridge, bread, boiled vegetables, stew, and smoked beef. Oh, and ale, of course. Everyone had to have their ale. In fact, she had hardly served any real food if she included alcohol in the ratio. And the people… ugh. She should have…
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