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Heart-to-Heart

by Tower Curator — 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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Healing

by Tower Curator — Alyssa couldn’t do anything. The laboratory had a relatively open floor plan. There were tables, but none nearby. She tried to throw herself to the side, but she didn’t go far enough. Subjugation came at her as a wide wave, not a narrow beam. Her hands and knees hit the ground a lot harder than she would have liked. Kasita joined her only moments later. Though the mimic didn’t stay kneeling for long. Her form shimmered and she was standing again. Despite trying to get back up as well, Alyssa…
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Head of the Snake

by Tower Curator — Alyssa should have guessed that the brigands were being led by an arcanist. She had expected a conversation. A hostile one, yes, but at least a few words from the Chief. Instead, all she got were spell cards from him. Literal spell cards flying across the battlefield. She wasn’t sure what kind of magic he was using. The Chief flicked his cards like some kind of magician. They started glowing before they left his fingers and, once they struck something, a whole variety of effects popped up. The blue…
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Harping On

by Tower Curator — 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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Chapter

Handshake

by Tower Curator — Even knowing that the apophis hadn’t randomly murdered humans and wasn’t likely to go around randomly murdering humans, taking the apophis back to Illuna was still an iffy idea at best. A gremlin could be easily ignored by the general populace as a quaint curiosity. They were half the size of grown men and not particularly strong either. An apophis hanging around the camp, big enough to easily spot from the farmland north and east of Illuna, would surely start rumors spreading. Not the idle…
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Gussy Up

by Tower Curator — Alyssa set down her phone, pausing the video on some more advanced physics—her topic over the last two days, since arriving in Lyria. She thought that she might be able to make more interesting things if she knew a bit more about how the normal world worked. Unfortunately, she also thought she was reaching the limits of just what could be accomplished through simplified video tutorials. Luckily, a distraction arrived. The Pharaoh walked into Irulon’s room. His presence commanded attention. He was…
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Guillem

by Tower Curator — “You see? That is why the flywheel is important. It stores energy for use between the piston pumping. If the vehicle only moved when the piston moved, it would be the jerkiest ride ever. The flywheel smooths things out. And it lets us shift the belt off the drive shaft in case we want to stop completely without shutting down the engine.” Guillem nodded slowly, looking over the small model they had whipped up over the past few days. Well, the model she had whipped up. Jason hadn’t helped much at…
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Graveyard of the Immortals

by Tower Curator — For all that the Endless Expanse was a hell to mortals, it was, at least, a pretty hell. No fire and brimstone, obviously. Just the fractal iridescence of multi-faceted towers and buildings, all standing tall over what appeared to be an infinite chasm. Looking at it through those portholes that Irulon had developed did not give the city of the Throne the justice it deserved. Everything was just so much more here in person. The towers were unfathomably massive. From all the windows she had looked…
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Grammatical Errors

by Tower Curator — “I think,” Alyssa said, sketching out a design of her own, “it would be more efficient if you were to use these symbols.” Irulon accepted the piece of paper once Alyssa was finished, held it up, and stared for a long few moments. “Would this actually work? These two right here don’t seem to make sense with what I know of spell crafting and this one over here, I don’t recognize at all.” “Well, these two just make the request grammatically correct. I don’t have your formal knowledge…
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Gaunts

by Tower Curator — 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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