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Leave Your SoulLeave Your Body and Soul at the Door

by Tower Curator — “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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Feast II

by Tower Curator — Stairway to Heaven was probably the best song to play for people on Nod. Not lyrically, Alyssa didn’t care much for the lyrics—she really didn’t actually like the song that much, though whether that was because it was overrated or her father just overplayed it in her youth wasn’t an argument that she wanted to get into. But musically, instrumentally, it was quite amazing. The song started out with just the recorder and the guitar. Or lute, in this case. The opening rift was simple enough that…
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Court II

by Tower Curator — Alyssa did not know why she had been invited to the evening’s meeting. She felt like she should have something more to offer, but when it came down to it, most of the people at the table were absolutely impossible to talk to. They were too set in their views. Even little disagreements about some inane side note were taken as personal attacks. Arguing anything more had seen two people storm off already. It wasn’t even her doing the arguments. Aside from her introduction, Alyssa could count the number…
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Inn Keeping

by Tower Curator — Walking through the village half a step behind Lazhar—as the ale vendor had introduced himself—Alyssa kept quiet and tried to draw as little attention to herself as possible. Lazhar didn’t seem to mind. He didn’t even ask about her odd attire. Not a single woman that she passed had anything other than a dress on. Alyssa’s pants had to stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps he was too preoccupied to concern himself much with the strange visitor. Every ten steps, people walked right up to his…
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Work Work

by Tower Curator — Alyssa could say with absolute certainty that she hated medieval life. Try as she might, she couldn’t find a single redeeming point to anything. Food had three flavors and only three flavors; bland, raw sewage, and inedible. None of the college classes she had signed up for had been proper history classes. To get her credits, she had taken art history. Which had just enough regular history mixed in as context for the art to understand exactly why the food was terrible. On Earth, entire wars had been…
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Lessons from the Future

by Tower Curator — 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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Fear and Self-Loathing

by Tower Curator — 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

by Tower Curator — 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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Oxart

by Tower Curator — Hands clasped behind her back, Oxart gazed out the large window in her office. The window looked to the north, over the fields and to the desert beyond. Wheat glistened a golden brown in the dying light of the day. Corn stalks were high. Harvest would be soon. Over the next few weeks, the farmhands would reap the tall fields. A few weeks after that and there would be nothing left at all but scraps of straw. Rats and vermin would move in, taking their own bounty from the land. Soon after, priests would…
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Captains of the Guard

by Tower Curator — “Perhaps you had better hide. You know, to avoid a repeat of what happened back at the potion shop.” ~Did you have to run the whole way here? Oh my head aches.~ “It was a light jog. But yes. I did. Irulon needs medical treatment and I didn’t want to get caught by Oz.” The fairy in Alyssa’s satchel had long since given up trying to peek out over the top of the bag. She was hunkered down behind a notebook, trying to use it as a shield from the loose bullets that were bouncing around…
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