Jennifer Jones
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Tala, Terry, and Rane were sitting beside the fast flowing water of the circular river within Tala’s sanctum, enjoying some time together with the Zuccats. Haster was off in Alefast, meeting with a couple of potential masters, but Anna, Master Simon, Mistress Petra, Segis, and Metti were all there, a wonderful picnic spread laid out for them. Metti was actually in the water, floating round and round the central rise on a waxed, leather bladder of some kind. They were apparently popular in cities with…-
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Tala stood with Terry, Rane, and their Defender unit at the end of an all too familiar style of tunnel, right inside a cell. They all were a bit awkward because of the requirements of this particular cell. None of them were naked—or even indecent by the standard of Mages—but they were all wearing much less than usual… except Tala. They’d all been obligated to shed This Mage’s only magic of consequence was to soulbind whatever he encountered. Thankfully, with sapient beings, that still…
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Tala, Rane, and Terry enjoyed their trip to Marliweather overall, and it seemed like no time at all before they gathered with Tala’s family, Verla, and Master Leighis to see Fedir off to the Academy. His older, Academy-attending siblings were set to teleport back at the same time. There wasn’t a lot of fanfare, and the goodbyes were less tearful than they might have been because everyone knew that all those going to the Academy would be able to come back in just a little more than a year, thanks to…
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Tala stretched and twisted, popping her back as she waited on one side of a quiet dell within her sanctum. Large trees arched over the oval shaped dip in the landscape, creating an almost throne-room-like aesthetic. Though it held more an air of peace, tranquility, and reverence than one of authority and power. It was the morning after her breakfast and lunch with her siblings, and dawn’s early light filtered through the trunks and leaves to give a diffuse, ethereal illumination to the place. On the…
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Tala’s smile in response slowly faded as it was replaced by a slight frown. This girl looked Verla smiled at that, seemingly grabbing onto her own lifeline in the conversation. “Yes. Apparently my shyness led Caln to believe that I was uninterested in him all these years.” She flushed a bit at that. “I wasn’t really as good at demonstrating my feelings as I thought.” Caln stepped in, coming to her metaphorical rescue. “It was only recently—a bit more than a year ago—that I realized, to…
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Tala—just as expected— She killed a hundred mice in just under thirty minutes, barely feeling a twinge of empathy, having been on the other side of the equation for so long. During the run as a cat, she did have to bat away one mouse who tried to go for her eye, and Master Grediv was a bit cagey on why that had happened after she succeeded in the task. She decided not to press the issue. The next scenario had forced her to embody a squirrel who not only needed to avoid a wolf, but also rescue…
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Tala, Rane, and Lisa walked from the breakfast place with full bellies and a lot on their minds. Lisa seemed to be considering deeply the decision that was before him. Even so, as they reached a cross street, he turned to regard her. “I should let you get back on the road. You were leaving as I reached out to you, correct?” “We were, yes.” She nodded in concession. “Then, I shall begin negotiations and reach out to this Artia you mentioned. If she already has an established business, perhaps…
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Tala, Rane, and the arcane fox, Lisa, were walking through Irondale, discussing the pocket-town. Lisa, in particular, was giving Tala a searching look, hoping for a satisfying answer to his question. Why was she doing any of this? What was she seeking, here? Tala shrugged. It was an expected question, and actually one that lay near the heart of a lot that she’d been considering lately. Because of that, it wasn’t a new concept to her, and she had a ready answer, “Why? Well, one reason is simply that…
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Tala, Rane, and Terry followed Lisa into Irondale. As he stepped inside, the impenetrable illusion of a generic human male seemed to roll off of him, like Tala or Rane would shed a coat when coming in out of the weather. Tala hadn’t opened the door to the main gate of the town—through which they enacted trade and tourism when Tala opened the town to the outside world in various cities. Instead, she had chosen a more scenic locale. Thus, they came out of the face of a small cliff roughly a mile from…
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Tala tried to hold in her nervous excitement as she waited in Mistress Holly’s waiting room. It was as well appointed and clean as always, with sparse decorations just slightly shifting the ambience from being strictly utilitarian toward comfortable. The attendant behind the counter gave her a nervous glance every so often, offering more coffee every second or third glance. It was good coffee, well brewed for drinking black, so Tala took him up on the refill almost every time… It hadn’t been that…
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