Sophia Jackson
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Alden stood in front of Stuart’s door, pondering what to say. Visiting him wasn’t a requirement for this special quest, but it had obviously been what He tried to remember his first impressions of the Artonan boy and combine them with his newest one. “You know,” he whispered, “I’m not sure I’m the correct person for a…a friend-making mission at the moment. I’m probably off personality-wise myself right now.” He’d thought he was dying. Then he’d Nothing felt quite right or…-
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Alden was glad he’d been alone through it. Some things weren’t meant to be shared. After it was over, it still wasn’t over. But eventually, in addition to the writhing agony of his battered authority as it tried to claw its way out of its new affixation, he became aware of the world around him. He was in a forest, lying on the ground beneath trees whose massive trunks towered above him like skyscrapers. Their bark was a brown so dark it was nearly black, and their size reminded Alden of redwoods,…
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CHAPTER SIXTY: Mother, pt. 2 “This is fun,” she said, waving a hand to make the sigil that represented Alden’s skill disappear from the television screen. “Normally, even if you were learning to use your authority, I wouldn’t talk to you about the original Avowed skills. I would have to violate some rules to direct you toward them these days, and you haven’t yet earned an extraordinary measure like that. But Alden was sure there was a picture of Joe somewhere in the universe with the words…
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The boy stood in front of a white door. He didn’t know how long he’d been standing there, or where he had come from, or what he was supposed to do next. His fingers hovered over the access panel without touching it. He watched them for a while. A dark silver ring etched with symbols appeared on the middle one. Eventually, he looked up. A logogram had been drawn on the door in blue paint. It said WELCOME. “Oh.” Alden blinked at it. “I’ve done this before.” The paint shifted. New…
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Ritual of Return detected. Ritual legally authorized by Loh Alis-art’h. Contract I attempting to establish connection to spell and preserve haecceity… Attempting to establish connection to spell and preserve haecceity… Connection to spell established. Haecceity of passenger is Cost of salvation exceeds thresholds. Risk exceeds thresholds. Destruction of Ritual of Return will commence in Final analysis prior to destruction underway… Analysis completed. Personal request from Loh…
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Saying goodbye to Kibby sucked. Alden asked himself what he would want for the two of them in an absolutely perfect universe, and the answer was that he’d like for them to live together in a peaceful chaos-free cottage on Earth, with a kidnapped Instructor Gwen-lor on the premises to teach them magic every day and nothing but endless amounts of free time. He told Kibby this while they took a long walk together across the bare, chaos-free soil of Moon Thegund, leaving the dome far behind. It was…
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When Alden woke from his initial healing session, he hurt like hell. Rrorro had knocked him out with a spell while she worked on him. It was her main magical pain relief method, but she couldn’t safely keep him under indefinitely. And whatever overkill mind-altering drug LeafSong had given him had finally worn off at that point. Very apologetic, the icorlax gave him something that worked about as well as an aspirin and explained that some of the wizards were trying to track down and/or brew serious,…
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As always since coming to Moon Thegund, Alis-art’h woke feeling peace and tranquility. She slid from beneath the heated blankets of her bed and threw on a silk robe—her uniform for the day. Here, there was nobody around who would whisper behind their hands and wonder what it meant The original plan was for her to be at home right now, doing all the things a nurturing mother should do with a healthy set of newborn wizard triplets. Nursing them, racing to their cribs at their every cry, coddling their…
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Alden had heard that some humans could run hundreds of miles without sleep. Not even Avowed. Just ordinary humans. He was not trained. Or awesome. And he was carrying another person on his back. But if being an Avowed was ever going to count for something, he wanted it to count for this. He had Azure Rabbit. He had a whole lot of ground for it to work with. It wasn’t that he thought he Maybe there were three hundred miles left to go. Maybe there were twice that many. Alden hadn’t asked Kibby…
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“I think you should press the button that makes it go faster,” Kibby said suddenly from her place in the passenger seat. She was bundled up in the coat, with an additional pair of blankets wrapped around her to ward off the cold, and she had a tablet in her lap. While the lab still existed, she was using it to study the chaos map one last time. Whoever was in charge of clean-up was making slow and steady progress toward them, taking one giant semicircular bite out of the corruption every day like they…
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