Elizabeth Wilson
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Your group set out on three wagons, each one pulled by a metallic contraption that belches a dark acrid smoke that made the horses on the road whinny and whine. Crossing through the gates leading out of Five Peaks was easy. The guards looked at everyone, you included, and poked at the things carried in the wagons, but since that mostly amounted to a few books in a chest and some coal they didn’t make much of a fuss. And so, just like that, you were let out of the city. The outside of Five Peaks isn’t…-
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You’re almost bouncing off the walls of the houses around you, your excitement too big to fit into your teeny tiny body, so the excess energy is making you all spasm-y and wild. You want to run, and hug Abigail, and skip, and maybe sit down and take a nap, all at the same time. “Calm down, Dreamer,” Abigail says with a laugh. She’s a few steps behind you, wearing a ‘sturdy’ skirt made of some thick cloth and a blouse under a heavy woolen jacket. A big backpack, mostly filled with light…
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Skinner leads you and your friends to a small room off to one side. There are maps on the wall and lots of chairs around a big table and of course plenty of books. A floofy cushion off to one side holds an equally floofy and familiar squirrel. “Hello, Sigmund,” you say. The squirrel rises his head from where it rested on his tail. “Ah, hello Dreamer,” he says before resting his head back down. His belly is nice and plump and you suspect it hides a food baby, which means he’s having a post-snack…
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Daphne is looking around at all the other students, a frown making her brow scrunch up. “People are nervous,” she says. You look around too. The people moving around the corridors are mostly in tightly knit groups, with their Familiars close to their sides. Most of them are either looking around as if they expect something to jump at them or are moving a whole lot faster than usual. You guess they are nervous, like Daphne said. Maybe it’s because of all the Inquisitor people running around the city…
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The sun is beginning to set when Edmund slips into the room and clears his throat. “Dinner is ready to be served,” he says. You’re the first one out of the room. You plonk yourself down and bounce on the spot until everyone arrives and silently wish they would move along faster so you can get to the eating. In the meanwhile, you tear off your adorable ninja mask and drop it on the floor so that nothing will get in the way of your mouth. Daphne takes the head of the table, and Abigail sits next to…
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“I think you’ll have lots of fun here,” Charlotte said as she led him by the hand. Pou-tine, because that’s what they had been calling him even though that wasn’t his name, looked up to the taller mortal and tried to think of what to do. On the one fry, he could turn around and run away. But then That Which Lies Eternally Dreaming would chase him. And she never stopped until it was time for a nap. He would be unable to rest for fear that she would consume him in his own dreams. So he had no…
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Byzantine. It was a word that Merwin Fuller had first heard during his stay at the Akademie der Magie in the north. He had had to look it up, to discover what it meant after first hearing its use. To think that one day he would use it to describe his own work. Truly, he was no longer the starry-eyed fool that he had once been, filled with innocence and curiosity. Now he knew that innocence was merely a form of ignorance, and that curiosity was the path to an untimely and gruesome death. Something…
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You were originally intending to save Pou-tine and then let them go, but now that you’re thinking on it, there might be other uses for something that’s kinda sorta like you. If you were way smaller and way weaker and way less smart. Yes, Pou-tine might be useful to keep around. “Okay, so I’m going to rescue you now,” you tell Pou-tine. The large pile of stuff wobbles to the far end of the circle, as far from you as it can get without slipping out of the circle. Curious, you look on the Other…
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There was a big argument. You didn’t like it, not one bit, but in the end you won so that’s all that matters. The girls are all gathered in Daphne’s house sipping at tea that Edmund delivered while you get ready for your big adventure. An adventure that you’re going to do You, of course, aren’t sitting at the table and having tea. No, instead you’re standing across from a very worried Abigail and are trying very hard to pretend that her big wet eyes aren’t doing things to your tummy.…
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The girls decided to stick together after the interview, mostly because they had all been excused from class and didn’t really feel like going back, which as far as you’re concerned is great. You get to spend more time with you friends! “So, have you two decided on any clubs?” Daphne finally asks as she guides the group towards the same small park where you ate lunch. Charlotte nods. “Just one so far. I’m in the Athletics Club already! Need to keep in shape otherwise sitting down all day will…
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