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Fear and Self-Loathing
Alyssa blinked her eyes open, not quite understanding how she had wound up in bed. Bed was nice, but not so at the same time. As if she had just awoken from a great nightmare. Clouds covered her vision, making it blurry. It wasn’t anything to be alarmed about. Every morning started like this. As soon as she took a shower, she would be fine. Alyssa rolled onto her right shoulder, trying to reach the phone on her end table to check the time. As soon as she moved, fire burned through her arm. She bit…-
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Avoid the Bedehouse
Hospitals did not exist. At least not in the way that Alyssa thought of them. To her, a hospital was a big building with patients inside. Said patients generally received care for injuries and illnesses. When they couldn’t get treatment, they were made comfortable as long as possible. Dozens of doctors and nurses would run around trying to deduce and fix problems, each with their own specialties ranging from brain surgeries to general practices. Nothing like that existed within Lyria or, as far as she…-
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Gaunts
Gaunts. Creatures… No, monsters perhaps even more horrifying than shadow assassins. Shadow assassins were merely invisible. Their debilitating scream was problematic, but now that she knew what to expect from it, Alyssa felt like she could shrug it off. Not that she wanted to test their effects again. Aside from that, they weren’t even all that strong. At least, they died through sufficient application of bullets just as easily as any human would. According to both Kasita and the Irulons, nothing…-
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Cleaning Up
“Is Tess going to be alright?” Irulon stretched her arms high above her, snapped her neck back and forth, twisted her spine from one side to the other, bent over until the tips of her fingers touched her toes, and finally popped back up to her full height with a pleasant smile on her face. She stepped over Tess’ body, hopped off the stone slab where they had been lying, and grabbed for an elegant robe that she had asked for. She slipped into it before looking down at herself, though didn’t…-
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Pursuit
“I see them,” Alyssa said, trusting Izsha to keep her in her seat while she focused on the binoculars. Or rather, focused on what she saw through her binoculars. “Just as you said. Three people riding horseback. Looks like Oxart is draped over the one in the middle, unconscious, I think. Maybe dead, but I don’t know why they would carry around a dead body like this. I don’t see the fairy.” “It is small enough to be easily tucked away in some container or pocket.” “They don’t…-
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Three of Them
Irulon said something, but Alyssa barely heard a word. All her concentration went toward not panicking at the sight of the angel in front of her. There is no need to panic, she told herself. Angels cannot kill humans. There are things worse than death, Irulon had said to both Lumen and Kasita. And that was probably true. The angel didn’t need to kill to do harm. Harm could mean a lot of different things. It really depended on whose definition of harm was in use. What to do? What to do? The angel…-
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Heart-to-Heart
Now that she was clean, well fed, and calmed down, sitting around the apartment felt awkward. The initial shock of being back on Earth had worn off. It helped that she couldn’t actually leave the apartment. The fridge held a seemingly endless supply of anything she could want to eat, mostly fast food. Burgers from just about every chain restaurant in both chicken and beef varieties, chicken nuggets, Chinese takeout, pizza, submarine sandwiches, hot dogs, fries, sushi, tacos and nachos, and even…-
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Mathematics
“My head is going to explode.” Kasita hadn’t made it in time. A terrible misfortune. Maybe she could have made sense of something. Alyssa sure wasn’t getting anywhere. She had a notebook out in front of her, but the page was blank. It was supposed to be notes of her lesson with Tenebrael. Tenebrael was teaching her… something. Alyssa just didn’t know how to write it down. If she had her phone, maybe that would have helped. But Tenebrael had taken that upon their arrival. They had…-
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Ticket to the Moon
Alyssa pressed her back against the house’s wall, having ducked around the corner. Fela charged off, out of Alyssa’s bubble of invisibility. She should have cared more. Fela being seen by other people could be a disaster. A monster in the middle of the city, attacking a human. And if one of the royal family was seen with Fela… They would have found out eventually, but that would presumably have been under controlled circumstances. Here and now, there would be panic. At the moment, Alyssa found it…-
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Tenebrael
“Can you actually do this?” Tenebrael stared down at the angelic script covering every inch of every tome in her private quarters. Enochian was a dense language. Each individual character could hold a bounty of information. Hundreds of filled tomes were laid out, open with the efforts of countless hours of research and investigation. Of discovering exactly what the true nature of angels really was. She still wasn’t sure she understood everything perfectly. But she hoped that what she understood…-
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