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The Mountain

by Tower Curator — Never before had Alyssa wished so much for a cup of coffee. Or any caffeinated drink, really. She didn’t usually have coffee in her mornings, but today would have been an exception. As much as she wanted some stimulant, picking up anything local might not go over so well. Even had she been back at the inn, asking Yzhemal for something didn’t sound appealing. The punk rocker girl was still fresh in her mind. Who knew what sort of drugs they had in this time period. Alyssa had no intentions of…
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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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Back to Teneville

by Tower Curator — While Alyssa had discovered that she really didn’t care for the company of angels no matter the color of their clothes, there was one unfortunate fact about missing out on Iosefael carrying, or magicking, her around the world. She had to pass through Teneville. Well, she didn’t have to. She could have gone around. But that would have added both time and discomfort to her trip. For the last week, Alyssa had been living out of her home, eating proper food, enjoying the regulated temperature, regular…
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Another Angel

by Tower Curator — “You’re Alyssa Meadows?” Alyssa stared at the angel, wondering how she should act. If she was anything like Tenebrael, a bat wasn’t going to do much good. Neither would a gun. However, Tenebrael was clearly the evil twin of the two, what with her dressing in all black and taking people’s souls. So, deciding to be mildly hospitable, she lowered the bat and nodded her head. Radiance beamed from the angel’s sudden smile as her wings carried her right in front of Alyssa, definitely breaking…
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Home Sweet Home

by Tower Curator — Home sweet home. Sort of. Seeing it surrounded by grass with the wooden fence cut off a few feet away from the walls in a perfectly smooth line gave it an uncanny feeling. Even more eerie, it felt empty. Alyssa hadn’t gone inside yet, but just looking at it from where the street should be, it held an air about it like it was lost to time. Though it was actually from the future, relative to the technology level she had seen anyway. It was a shame the driveway had been left behind. Since both of…
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Breakdown

by Tower Curator — “You kill them! All the pilgrims who come here, you kill them!” Yzhemal turned to look at Lazhar. Lazhar turned to look at Yzhemal. Alyssa ground her teeth together, staring at the two brothers as they turned back to face her. She had been in a stupor after the ceremony. Finding her unmoving as the bodies were being carted off somewhere, Lazhar had walked her back to the inn. Only when he had sat her down at the counter and Yzhemal poured her a drink did she finally snap out of it. “You…
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Closing Ceremony

by Tower Curator — Alyssa wobbled back and forth, nearly collapsing to the floor until that sudden feeling of wrongness that came with falling jolted her awake. Yzhemal worked her hard the night before. Waiting tables wasn’t exactly difficult work. The menu only had five items on it; porridge, bread, boiled vegetables, stew, and smoked beef. Oh, and ale, of course. Everyone had to have their ale. In fact, she had hardly served any real food if she included alcohol in the ratio. And the people… ugh. She should have…
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Supplies

by Tower Curator — “She’s still breathing,” Lazhar said, standing up from the bed and turning to Alyssa and Yzhemal. He moved away from the sleeping girl, dusting his hands together. “Whether she wakes or not? I cannot say,” he said with a casual shrug. “I warned everyone of putting out fires before sleeping. Lass is lucky she didn’t burn down my inn.” “She would probably have died,” Alyssa mumbled. Looking up to the twin with the beer belly—she didn’t actually know if they were twins or not,…
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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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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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