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Acquiring Assistance
Alyssa stepped into the palace stables, exiting a shimmering portal. She barely managed to drag Iosefael through before the rippling liquid dispersed into the air. Tenebrael had ended up allowing Alyssa to leave the little box without any trouble. More surprising, she allowed Iosefael to leave. It was a close thing, but it had to have been intentional. The portal only collapsed after getting the angel out. In contrast, the other portal was still up and running. All the draken were on this side, even…-
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Angels Deserve to Cry
Alyssa couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. Not at the prospect of talking with an angel. Definitely not. Not only had she spoken with angels in general before, but she had spoken to this one. There really wasn't anything special about angels. Aside from the deity-tier power that they wielded. But they weren't supposed to wield that at her, so everything should be just fine. No. It wasn’t Iosefael making her nervous. It was the other side of the portal. When Alyssa had prayed—asked for a…-
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Portals
“Oh good. The palace isn’t on fire,” Kasita said as she emerged from the portal. Alyssa and Irulon, the only other two through the portal at the moment, stopped and stared. They certainly were in the palace. It certainly wasn’t on fire. As soon as everyone else was through the portal, a full three days of travel time would have been sliced off their journey. That wasn’t the best part, in Alyssa’s opinion. The best part of the portal was that she didn’t have to go past Teneville again.…-
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Thinking with…
Waking up in her own bed should have been a familiar comfort. It wasn’t. She had figured it out. What had been bothering her. The lack of familiarity wasn’t just because she had a hellhound curled up at the foot of her bed. Kasita sitting in the chair, playing a game on Clark’s old computer wasn’t the problem either. They were certainly differences to what she remembered, but they weren’t the real problem. Maybe contributors. But, in some strange way, they were actually the most familiar…-
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Sporting Goods
It was a good thing that Alyssa’s home was relatively large. Brakkt and Irulon each had their own rooms, with Brakkt staying in Clark’s old room and Irulon in the basement guest room. Tess had to sleep on the couch downstairs, but she seemed happy enough with the situation. Compared to using the tents during the trip down to Teneville, a couch in a climate controlled environment was enough to get her to stop making odd glares out of the corner of her eye whenever Alyssa was around. So that was…-
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Home Away from Home
Alyssa sat on the living room couch. The cushioned leather seats were a stark contrast compared to everything that existed outside her transplanted house. Padding just wasn’t much of a real thing in Lyria. They tried. The people of this world definitely tried. And they even tried in different ways. Some inns or homes used straw stuffed into burlap-like sacks. Yzhemal’s inn, perhaps because of the many sheep that the village tended to, filled their beds with wool. Alyssa wasn’t sure how the palace…-
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Monumental
Alyssa stood in front of the temple ruins. It… was a lot bigger than a table. And that was the understatement of the century. She could have stepped over the remains of the destroyed table. This thing would take five minutes to walk from one end to the other. The height before it collapsed hadn’t been anything to scoff at either. While it wasn’t a palace or one of the towers around Lyria, it would probably be the next highest building if put up on a chart of the tallest structures in this…-
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Carpentry
“So. You think you’re some kind of prophet now?” Alyssa grimaced at the tone of her mother’s voice. Their relationship had been strained ever since she had arrived. This certainly wasn’t going to help matters. But… “I had to do something.” “And that something was to pretend to be a messenger from these people’s god?” “Yes.” Lisa snapped her head over to Alyssa, directly looking at her for perhaps the first time since the little speech out in front of the villagers. For…-
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Fiat Lux
Self-preservation was an interesting instinct. Not the fact that it existed—that was perfectly understandable—simply the way that the brain went about its task of keeping itself alive. For instance, Alyssa had to wonder exactly what was going through some poor villager’s head when they opened the door to leave their home for the day but saw a parade of frightening characters walking past. One gigantic dinosaur, one Darth Vader, one hellhound with literal fire pouring from her eyes, and three girls…-
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Field of Glass
Teneville was a peaceful town. They didn’t have guards. If they had a militia, it probably wasn’t trained or capable of defending from much of anything. The way their peninsula had formed, such things really weren’t necessary. They had no real threats around them. The one route from the rest of the land to their town required going through a fairly narrow mountain pass. Large forces wouldn’t be able to traverse it easily. And they had Lyria watching from above. They were defenseless. And if an…-
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