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Magic
Alyssa stared down at the yellowing, leathery paper with a slight frown on her face. The map was… not as useful as she had been hoping. It gave her a vague idea of where some things were. But it lacked so much detail that she felt was necessary to a proper map. She would never be able to actually navigate with it beyond heading in a vague direction. Not that she would be able to navigate with a proper map. Internet based maps and GPS had clearly spoiled her. “Here is where we are,” Aziz said,…-
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Madame Webb’s Fine Threads
Alyssa’s hand ached. Muscles in the palm of her hand and her wrist were all cramped up. They shouldn’t be. She had only been practicing drawing a perfect circle for two hours. Back in her grade school days, she had written pretty much all day long for twelve years straight. Two hours holding a pencil should have been a cinch. Haha. No. By the end of it, her fingers had been locked in place. Her knuckles crackled and popped when she finally set down the fountain pen. She hadn’t even been using ink…-
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Lowering Tensions
Waiting for the Fractal Lock to end was a lot more nerve wracking than Alyssa felt it should be. She had neglected to look at her phone immediately after starting the spell, so she didn’t know the exact time she had cast it. Even with that, Fractal Lock wasn’t a perfect twelve hours. Just close enough. So Alyssa had started a small camp fire in the middle of the island nearest to Lueta. Partially for the light. Night had just fallen a short while ago. But mostly, it was to try to dry off a bit. For as…-
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Lovely Ladies
There were just under a dozen girls who worked at the Waters Street Waterhole. Alyssa might have said that a dozen was less than she had expected except she hadn’t really expected anything. Between Tenebrael, killing two people, and nearly getting sold into slavery, she hadn’t thought much about what the actual brothel operation might have been like. The girls were cleaner than expected as well, though the smoke haze still in the air might have disguised their filth a little. Not all of them. Those who…-
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Long Night
Alyssa took a seat for what felt like the first time since she woke up this morning. Her thighs didn’t feel particularly great at the moment and the less said about the soles of her feet, the better. Her old boots, the military boots she had been using since she first arrived in this world, were still around, but Alyssa had started worrying that they might not have the lifespan that she needed them to have. They were already fairly old, having been her mother’s service boots from before she left the…-
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Lip Reading
“That is Tenebrael’s agent?” Alyssa nodded, glancing at the real Iosefael over the top of her phone’s borders. The angel had her arms crossed, pouting. “This is highly irregular. Mortals aren’t supposed to see us.” “Yeah, well, it is too much of a pain to explain when I could just show you around instead.” Though it was a pain holding up her phone constantly as well. Irulon would eventually have to get used to not seeing the angel at all. For now, Alyssa had her phone in video…-
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Lightshow
Alyssa hoped she would run into the Taker on her way out. Seeing his face when she walked into a room with a gaunt at her side would be worth everything that had happened tonight… Or maybe it wouldn’t. While capable of small bursts of speed that had Alyssa keeping her distance from the monster, the sad fact was that the gaunt moved too slow to be a threat to someone like the Taker. He would either dance around it or simply keep his distance and use his knives, probably killing both Alyssa and the fairy…-
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Lessons from the Future
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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Leave Your Soul
“Again.” Alyssa grit her teeth, but nodded. She raised her hands without a word of complaint. In a brief flash of black-white light, a brand new mostly human body sat on a wide sheet of flat metal. The base form came from Irulon. It was roughly her height, weight, and had definite familial resemblance, especially in the face. With Irulon’s body having been the dragon’s home for more than a year, it felt that a body most similar to hers would fit best. Though the dragon had said that it would be…-
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Last Minute
“Hey… What’s different about me compared to other mortals?” Alyssa asked. She almost left it at that until she realized just who she was asking. “To narrow down your responses, I’m specifically looking for the reasons why I can see and talk to angels. Not like ‘oh, your hair color is this specific shade of brown and your eyes are that shade of brown.” “Query accepted… Five zero three. Service unavailable. All Virtues of the Throne are currently occupied with other tasks. Please try…-
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