WOUND

Aug. 6th, 2022 07:38 pm
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You must keep it wound. Our family's sacred duty. No Lightkeepers, we - no tower to climb and set blazing. A humbler duty, instead, to turn the Great Key and wind the springs tight.

I had a bad feeling the moment that charming failure of a Lightkeeper walked in.

ARRIVE

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:54 pm
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You are my harbinger, the night whispered. You precede my arrival.

Not by choice, Twilight hissed silently.

Would you prefer to precede the day? night asked, and Twilight could hear the unspoken threat. Would you steal your twin's rightful place?

Twilight scoffed. What twin? Twilight was Dusk's (and Dawn's) bodyguard.

MUTATION

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:32 pm
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There is argument over which strain of the virus came first, but evidence indicates the megalomania and sociopathy are symptoms in earlier outbreaks, and therefore...

...aenemia and dental alterations remain consistent, however personality shifts are specific to...

...commonly assumed to be weaker than their counterparts...

"HOW. DO. I. KILL. THEM?"

DISCOURAGE

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:29 pm
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"It's a strange word, really. 'En-courage'. To give someone bravery to do a thing...? Then to 'dis-courage' must be to make fearful of doing a thing." Silver pupils gleamed in the green irises, as - It - looked at the frozen party of adventurers. "Permit me to 'dis-courage' you."

Silver fangs gleamed.

MEAN

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:22 pm
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"Perhaps some abacus-pusher may be satisfied with just 'averaging'," the professor sneered, "but you are proud students of mathemagica, and Must be Precise! Mean, median, mode! These are all distinct averages, and you must understand them to know when to apply each!"

HOLE

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:18 pm
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"There's a hole in their defences!" the War-Commander's thoughts yowled, making me grimace. Something in me insisted on picturing them as a vicious tomcat, and as the thoughts I pick up are filtered through my subconscious attitudes about the people I pick them up from...

But! They took the bait.

COPPER

Jun. 23rd, 2022 06:17 pm
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The creature huffed, coppery scales gleaming.

"But... they don't come in copper," breathed the fascinated Weyrleader. "Brown, green, blue, bronze, gold. Never any other shade."

The stranger rolled their eyes as the copper 'firelizard' belched flame. "It's. Not. A. Firelizard."

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