Mary Wilson
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***************************** I ended up finding four other bodies spread out along the border of silver territory and mountainscape. Each espen held the same eggs, in the same pit of their stomach, and it was always a he. Each corpse was fresher, the last one being brand new with blood still running. I kept my eyes sharp as I leaped up past the mountains. I molded gravity over myself, keeping a casual pace. Otherwise, I’d outpace the damn octo-car. Swarms of birds kept getting in my way to a point…-
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I am proud of my race and my standing. As an Albony duchess, I hold sway in galactic courts. I’ve struck fear into those that hear my name, Caprika Novas. Despite all the clout I’ve amassed, I won’t pretend that this Harbinger of Cataclysm didn’t unnerve me. After seeing him melt a corpse without any warning, he absolutely horrified me. So the sense of relief as that monster of metal jumped out of the rickety shack was palpable. He had this feeling around him, as if he weren’t mortal. It left…
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An espen laid hidden by crags of stone. The espens once crimson skin faded to a murky red, his vitality drained. A brand covered his forehead, a symbol etched on the surface. I opened my status, sending Caprika a message along with our coordinates. She might know what the mark meant, giving us a clue to what was going on. I inspected the horror further, leaning towards the mess. The espen’s hands were missing fingernails. I glanced around him, finding scratch marks from where he tried to escape. His…
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I walked over, clicking the center of Torix’s gray suit. My power armor folded off me. I set the gray square that was left on a night stool beside the bed. I laid onto her. As I did, my real armor molded over us both, creating a sphere. As I pressed against her back, I whispered in her ear, “Always.” Althea giggled, “Your armor’s gotten way better at that circle thing since we first did it forever ago.” I smiled, “It had to. Otherwise, we’d be waiting for the metal longer than we…
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With another lash of his tail, the gialgathen’s desperation grew. I deflected another cutting strike. He flapped his wings, flying up into the air. Dipping into my mana, I pulled him downward. Alzoroth snapped, “What is this vile trickery.” I stomped my heel, slamming him into the arena. His wide feet cracked into stone. He stumbled back, giving away precious space. His tail pummeled me from all angles, panic growing in his eyes. I controlled the fight with absolute calm, however. I…
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The gialgathen raised his neck, mana pouring from around him. Iasis charged towards him at a blistering pace. Alzoroth whipped his tail. Iasis slowed down, trying to dodge the tail’s whip. Alzoroth slowed down the shifting momentum in his tail to match it. Iasis skidded to a stop in front of Alzoroth, fearing the crack of tail. The giant boomed a chuckling roar from his jaws. He boomed out with a mental wave, “Do you fear me to such an extent?” Iasis kept cool, forming icicle spears. Before he…
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Earnest unholstered two pistols, quick drawing them with skill. He fired off the entire clip towards Iasis. Iasis clasped a fist at the same time. Water from the air snapped together, forming ice. This plate of ice caught the bullets, cracks snapping through the plate. The wall of ice crumbled. Iasis turned around, gesturing with his hands. Blue, origin mana built in his fingertips. He faced the shards of ice, launching them towards Earnest. Iasis created new shards formed as fast as the old ones fired…
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Kessiah growled as she charged Caprika. With an unnerving calm, Caprika stood back and waited. Kessiah’s footsteps crushed the stone beneath her feet, her movements explosive. As Kessiah reached Caprika, the remnant launched a right haymaker at Caprika’s face. The princess channeled the air by raising an arm. An invisible torrent cut through one of the tendons in Kessiah’s wrist. The hand went limp, unable to function. Caprika grabbed the weak arm, slinging Kessiah overhead. The shoulder…
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Before I chewed into the cipher bonus, I checked out my trees. I got a bonus of 700 tree points from Eonoth’s blessing. I poured the points into my current tree, Legendary. The instant the notification sounded, a wave of ease passed over me. I held up a hand, bending gravity as if it were a liquid. It molded with instinctual ease. It was like breathing or walking. There wasn’t any thought behind it. I thought of a change in it, and the mana made it so. It freed up space in my mind.…
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The silver’s hollow eyes starred at me for a second. It turned around, running away. Before it escaped, I gripped it with a gravity well. I stepped forward, the dim lights obscuring his operating table. Embedded into the skin of the espen was strands of silvers. The tiny, gray insects dug their feet into the espen. They interlocked, creating panels of metal on the skin of the poor man. I tapped a few of the moving the bugs. They crawled away from my fingertip as if I was their kryptonite. I sighed,…
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