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Extinguished
“It seems as if they are genuinely after some of the monsters. Not to enslave, but to have them work for Yora. Inspired by ‘that hellhound that’s been running around Lyria’ apparently,” Alyssa said with a glance to Fela. The hellhound looked up from her jerky for a moment, offering a shrug. “Not sure that I believe that fully, but it is what the Yora intelligencer said.” Rokien leaned forward, rubbing at the hairs on his bovine chin. Fezzik started to mirror his motions, stopping…-
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Exploration
Alyssa walked a full circle around her house. Everywhere she went, she walked across fresh green grass. Really fresh. It smelled like the grass had just been mowed even though almost all of it brushed by her knees. Behind the house, a small lake bordered a forest filled with high trees. Maybe redwoods—Alyssa wasn’t sure, her brother had been the Wilderness Ranger of the family. With the sun not too hot and the breeze just light enough to be pleasant against her skin, she might have enjoyed relaxing…-
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Espire
The intelligencer had been far less useful than Alyssa had been hoping for. She could honestly not tell if she was being lied to or if the intelligencer genuinely didn’t know anything about the group of people. Alyssa had presented the idea that the people were still alive and had simply been detained in the hopes that the intelligencer would worry that one might betray Yora if pressed, but… In short, the intelligencer had done nothing but deny, deny, and deny. She didn’t know anything. She…-
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Escape from Lyria
The stares were the worst. Alyssa couldn’t remember a single point in her life where she had been more nervous. Not even her home being robbed and her killing those two men had rattled her quite so much—she had been pumped so full of adrenaline that she hadn’t really had the wherewithal to be nervous. Here, walking down the streets of Lyria, it was all she could do to put one foot in front of the other over and over again. And that was even with most of the stares directed behind her. Four…-
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Escalating Discouragement
The chaos of a battlefield wasn’t entirely foreign to Alyssa. She had gone through her fair share of fights. As such, she knew what to do. It was almost instinct at this point to go invisible. Having essentially planned for this exact outcome since first connecting with Tenebrael and even more since relying on Tenebrael’s power to replace spell cards—directly by casting miracles instead of regular spells or indirectly by creating the spell cards themselves—Alyssa had her backup deck of cards in her…-
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Entropic Decay
Alyssa charged through fields of wheat on Izsha’s back, fleeing from Illuna as fast as she could. The golden light of a single Kindness was still visible over her shoulder. It didn’t look like it was following her, but Alyssa wasn’t taking any chances. If it spotted her, she had a feeling that hundreds of the Astral Authority wouldn’t be far behind. The others were still in the city. Partially to warn off people from attacking the Kindness. Partially because Brakkt hadn’t quite finished…-
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Empty Mirror
“You stupid bitch! Can’t threaten to kill me now, can you?” Cid shouted at the hole in the tunnel floor. His eyes widened momentarily as he reached up to his throat, but the black smoke from the Contract spell was already disappearing, leaving him with a full grin on his face. “Hope you enjoy it down there as much as I did. Say hello to Bacco for me.” Alyssa watched in silence from her shroud of fractal illusions as he slid the light holder back into the wall. The trapdoor snapped shut,…-
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Embrace
Clasping her hands together in front of her, Alyssa closed her eyes and concentrated. She could picture what she wanted. A nice, tight-fitting pair of sports sunglasses. Not goggles, but something that concealed her eyes fully even from the sides. And something that wouldn’t crack or chip easily. Sunglasses. She had worn them tons of times, donning many different styles over her life. She knew what they looked like. Her mental picture was as perfect as could be. Pulling her hands apart from each…-
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Ember
“Ah, I should have listened to them. I should have listened. Why don’t I listen to people who know better than me?” Alyssa ground her knuckles into the sides of her head as she stared at the burning ember hovering in the air. They were well away from the bedehouse. Tzheitza was right. She shouldn’t have ever gone near there. Not only had she not gotten anything useful out of the trip, but she got something unwanted. Something potentially dangerous. The marble of a glowing coal was demonic in…-
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Draken
As it turned out, Irulon had more than just fancy dresses and elegant clothes in her wardrobe. She had plenty of articles seemingly designed for nothing more than showing off her opulence. Things that looked as if they had actual gold woven into the threads. Even combining the coins she had stolen from Svotty with every penny she had earned over her entire life back on Earth, she was quite certain that she wasn’t rich enough to be in the same room as even one of the more elegant dresses. Irulon…-
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