Jennifer Smith
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"Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my!" Lone slowly opened his eyes only to find himself back in Urd Grun with a smug-looking Hamish staring at him. "Hello to you too, Darkness," Lone said as he sat down on the floor and crossed his legs. "If you're going to gloat, go ahead and gloat. I don't care." "Well... I do recall telling you it wouldn't exactly be the wisest of choices to tell them about our little nightly rendezvouses, now didn't I?" Darkness chuckled with Hamish's body. "I told you so and all of…-
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The steamforged bath was, quite honestly, a piece of engineering genius. Lone didn't know all that much about the intricacies of steamforging just yet. He'd barely even begun to learn the basics from Wilbur but with what little knowledge he To describe the bathtub it had a large waterfall-like stream coming out of a thin copper bar at the ceiling, just above the foot end of the tub. Right below that was a small drain that was always open. Somehow, the machinery in the bathtub's walls perfectly…
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Wilbur held out an arm, stopping Lone from following him into the backroom and home of his shop. "Ye're still covered in blood an' ye'r dripping all over the place. No way in the name of the Stone are ye stepping foot past this door." "Ah," Lone exclaimed. "Right you are. Do I wait here then?" The old dwarf nodded wordlessly before disappearing into the back room. Before long, he returned holding two chairs. He manoeuvred past the counter to the shop's floor before placing the chairs down with…
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Lone was no stranger to stares. He had been a pretty introverted person for a teacher back on Earth, of course, though that was mostly due to his abusive childhood and not as a result of his inherent personality. Granted, he was nothing like Soph who was socially awkward and Breena who was utterly inept at any and all interpersonal relations. However, during his time in Milindo - before he was imprisoned, he'd slowly grown accustomed to noticing people stealing glances at both his face and his tails.…
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"'Ow can ye still stand?! Tell me!" Hamish demanded. In front of him, Lone was wobbling to his feet despite being covered in blood, holes and bruises. Bones poked out of his skin and a lot of his body was twisted in strange directions. Half of his tails had been ripped clean off and he was missing his left hand - his wrist having been punched so hard the limb just separated itself from the rest of his arm. Lone could only open one eye and he was barely able to see anything at all with it but he still…
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"Is this how dwarves do things?" he asked with accusation and scorn in his tone as he fought against the aura's effects on him. "You ignore reason, respect, and intelligence, in favour of attacking whoever you assume has even a mote of culpability for what has happened to you?" Lone spat on the floor of the guild's training area. "I don't know what went down in Urd Grun exactly but I can guess it wasn't anything great. And you, in all of your great wisdom, have judged me to be responsible without asking…
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Felix Morstone frowned in his office after having just seen Lone Immortus off. He was, quite honestly, getting rather tired of these morning meetings that to him, were entirely pointless. He reached into one of his desk's many drawers and pulled out a bronze flask. Uncorking it and letting the fiery content within flow down his throat, he heaved a sigh. "Why does the council think it tae be so wise tae waste ma time with 'at deluded fox?" he grumbled under his breath in his natural accent. It had…
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Sophie gave Lone an incredibly unsatisfied look before she sighed heavily. "Of course it is a Primal behind this and of course it has its eyes set on you..." Lone smiled wryly. "Yeah. That's twice now we've stumbled onto a Primal by coincidence. Well, apparent coincidence." Sophie raised an eyebrow. "'Apparent'?" Lone nodded. "I spent a lot of time researching magic both in Ranton and here. There's a thing called fate magic. Now, of course, I have no evidence to suggest magic is at play..."…
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Lone sighed when he opened his eyes only to find himself in the mysterious urd again. "You know, you could at least bring me to a room or something when you force me here instead of in the middle of the road." Darkness chuckled as it took the form of Breena. "What would be the point? You hardly stay for long. Besides, guests who don't take off their shoes when I invite them in my house get the short end of the stick, I'm afraid." "Oh, of course. How rude of me," Lone answered with a roll of the eyes.…
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"How has Kyuubi been?" Lone asked Breena to cure the growing silence between them as they ate dinner. Carefully nibbling on her food, Breena answered, "Um, good? She's very soft... and, em, nice? She's a lot more docile than most pets." The man wasn't always an abusive sack of shit. He was actually a decent person until his company started collapsing around him. Slowly, blow after blow had worn down his father's mind to the point of abusing his own son and later killing himself. Of course, this…
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