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The line slowly formed over the course of an hour as joyful men and nervous teenage boys drifted into the street and in front of the temple dedicated to Vemi Offilin Habe. They wore a wide variety of clothing, from simple trousers and shirts to more elegant suits. Like their clothes, their ages went from young, barely hitting twenty, to the old man who had acquired his fourth wife and eightieth year.

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Aberstine dragged his thoughts up from the nightmares that haunted his nights. In the shadows of his heavy helm, a pulsating red flared to life as he focused on the world around him. His gaze focused on the broken arch of an abandoned temple, then down to the sprawled forms of the warriors sleeping on the benches and stairs. He shook his head, a faint squeak rising up from the joints in his neck. He raised one shoulder and felt necromantic energies rising up to ignite the arcane runes that anima…

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The bright sound of songbirds yanked Wynd from her nightmares, bringing her back into a reality she could never see. The deep smells of earth flooded her nostrils as her mind struggled to identify her location. She was face down, that part she could feel. Damp soil and sharp needles shoved up into her, digging into her face, stomach, and hips. The sharp edge of something, probably a rock, pressed against her right breast painfully.

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Rain crashed into the small clearing in the forest. It pounded with a senseless fury that shoved the leaves down; the trees appeared to huddle together and against themselves to avoid the harsh, biting rain. Above, dark clouds boiled across the sky, flicking with the lightning as they glared angrily down. Little wind rustled through the trees, just the constant roar of falling water splashing off battered leaves.

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The spring storm raced along the blue sky, seeding it with dark clouds that flashed with barely contained lightning. A wind began to pick up, starting with a whisper of sound and growing until it howled in the trees, bringing the smell of rain into the air. The rain itself followed a few breaths behind, one moment it was humid, the next huge sheets of water slashed at the ground.

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Silkshadow cracked open one eye at the sound of something moving beyond the wood door she slept against. Her pointed ears twitched slightly as she identified the sounds of her kidnapper, a heavy thriban by the name of Silvergrub. A faint frown crossed her face as she tried to stretch, remembering the sharp rocks that surrounded her at the last instant. Poorly cut, the ridges of the stone cut into her calves and back before she curled back into a fetal position, a whimper of pain escaping her thr…

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Insects buzzed violently in the still summer day. Heat poured down from the clear-blue skies, splashing into the muted shadows and dripping into sun-baked rocks. Shimmers of heat rippled up from the dirt, leaving behind shimmers of false lakes and rivers in the distance.

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In fall, Franome City is filled with cool air, crisp winds, and more than the occasional storm of leaves and rain. The immense tree stretched out over the entire city shakes slightly with every wind, but the meter-long leaves, thankfully, never plummeted to the ground. Not that the Royal Guards would let anyone near it if they did.

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Dania clutched a rope as she swung her broomstick at her opponent. His sword flashed up and parried her. She twisted her weapon to avoid it being cut. Again. She shoved herself back to avoid his riposte. Her back foot caught one of the many bricks of the signal tower. Without testing it, she kicked off to scramble further up the rope. It burned her palm as she stopped after a few feet and swung blindly with her improvised weapon. It missed and she winced at the sound of the cracking wood. Her op…

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A playful breeze swirled around Jinatha, Jina for short, before dancing through the sun-dappled trees. Brilliant green leaves fluttered briefly before settling down. To her right, a creek babbled happily over rocks, giving a sense of peace to the woods.

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Roukan was a miserable, terrible town caught between the high-and-mighty kingdom of Franome and the barbaric wastelands of Luxember. And below, like the rotted core of an apple, Carium sat there, waiting with their self-righteousness and pride. Caught between three countries, Roukan had all the signs of being a city with multiple personalities, where everyone’s personal vendetta seemed that much easier to get away with.

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Hard winds slammed into the tiny village of River Rock. Streaks of bitter snow and ice crashed into the shuttered windows, rattling them on their hinges until it sounded like the screams of the dead. The night didn’t help with the visibility, lying over everything with it’s suffocating gloom; for the helpless outsider, the wind and ice streaked out of the darkness to cut at unprotected flesh. The only sane people were the ones inside.

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Around Talar, the woods were draped underneath a thick blanket of ice and snow. White frosting weighed down every branch, except where the bare bark peeked through with desperate hopes for spring. Cold winds whistled through the branches, cutting into the stiff silence with casual disregard.

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Klaier panted heavily as he raced along the edge of the woods, not daring to enter the heavy underbrush or to veer away into the wide-open expanses of the plain to his left. His right arm hung uselessly at his side, flapping painfully with every fear-driven pump of his legs. In his left hand, he still held the bloody remains of a sword, shattered on a suit of banded armor. The armor of the man who had just tried to rape him.

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The bright and sunny day woke up early, with the stretching calls of birds and the ocean-drenched air that blew over the white and gray stone walls of the ancient city of Marasath. The songs of the birds run against the stone as they have for thousands of years and will for thousands more. Even in a world that just saw the fall of the Dark Lord, there was a sense of age and history in Marasath that outlived four generations of war, a few short ages of supposed peace and hope, and even the longer…

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It was the type of night that seemed to ooze off the Franome river. The humid air stood still, a burning wall of pressure that fought against every movement, even the struggles of breathing. The faint breeze from the day before was just a memory, leaving only short tempers and growing angers in its wake.

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“Mister Galers! If you would be so kind…” The blond-haired head snapped up at the annoyed noise that filled the room. His eyes darted around before looking up from the back of the cramped room toward the front. Brown eyes widened in brief surprise before he scowled and sat back with a thump. The two students he was whispering with rotated in their chairs so they could focus on the speaker, a sour-looking old man by the name of Master Balmstagger. The rest of the room, six men between the ages o…

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It was one of those bright summer days where the insects just hung in the air, buzzing lazily as they found the energy to fly across the beams of sunlight. A faint breeze teased past the leaves of jade, sending cascading waves of playful laughter across the fields as children played and grandparents watched. Not a single cloud marred the sapphire sky, just blue fields above.

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The darkness of clouds threatened the horizon in their endless battle against the sun. Streaks of blue filled the sky, nestled between gray mounds of moisture filtering the sun. A warm breeze, full of the promise of rain, splattered against Morfune’s face and then blew past.

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Locke, stumbling under the weight of her packs, swung to a halt in front of a wooden door. Her short, reddish-brown bangs slipped back in front of her eyes and she blew up at them to move them. They promptly covered her eyes again. Ignoring them, she balanced on one foot and tried to push open the door.

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Warm sunlight kissed her skin, a heated flush that danced along Jin’s senses. She felt her dreams dripping away, splashing against the coarse sheets underneath her soaked skin. Stretching out underneath the light sheet draped across her naked body, she moaned softly as it slipped off, catching against erect nipples and sliding along her outstretched thigh. Her fingers brushed against the wall beyond the headboard before trailing down, stroking along her streaked brown hair. Her caresses slowed a…

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Gracie’s hands reached out for the bottom stair to the porch. Smears of mud and blood streaking the pale skin and painted nails. A sob ripped through her and she clutched her bare stomach with one hand, curling up on the ground as her gasps wracked her body. She wanted to cover her burning sex, but she couldn’t suffer her hands touching it. Instead, she just clutched her stomach and sobbed at the ache that burned between her legs.

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Sarisin stepped carefully over broken rocks and tangled weeds. Her eyes focused on the ground, trying to avoid looking at barren land around her, or her companions. A hot burning wind cut across the plains, kicking up dust and making her eyes burn and tear. She Blinked her eyes to clear away the dusty moisture , She slowed down to carefully step over the jagged remains of a tower wall, or what had been a tower, thousands of years before. Now, it was merely scattered stones and faded memories.

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The town hall of Glorn Thorp buzzed with gossip, discussions, and fear. It radiated off the weathered walls and beat against the frosted glass windows like a helpless butterfly. Disa sat silently near the center of one of the unpadded benches that stretched across the hall as her mother stood next to her, speaking with their neighbor as if they didn’t say the same thing over repeatedly every since the found the news.

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Dark dreams pounded through immense thoughts, sluggishly washing against the shores of consciousness with the endless movements of a hidden sun. A sea of blood, dreams of prey, endlessly crashing against the tiny sands of his memories. His mind was ancient beyond a time too abstract for tiny dreams, to old and far too young at the same time. He knew that time passed, but could not understand anything beyond the Now. His world was filled with blood and prey. The squeal of meat and the feeling of …

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Swords crashed together with the sound of steel against iron. Kira grunted as her back foot slipped on the snow, skittering back just enough for her knee to crash into the icy ground. Her opponent parted her painted black lips and hissed softly. “… going to die, Kira.”

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“So, you know… where are we going tonight?” The question was asked by a young boy, ten winters in age. His black hair stirred in the cold, blustery wind of late fall; a strand of caught on a scar on his cheek, the results of an accident with a knife many years ago. As he spoke, his brown eyes looked over to his friends, a boy of eight and a girl of eleven years.

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Humming to herself, Kila stretched out in the overstuffed chair, her slender legs hanging over one armrest while her head nestled in the comfortable nook between the other rest and the broad back of the recliner. Half resting on her stomach, a heavy leather tomb dominated her vision; it was entitled “Advanced Theoretical Alterations of Physical Forms in Crisis Situations.”

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Summer sunlight baked down against the ocean beach. Even with the cold waves washing up against the sand, heat radiated off each stone until everything shimmered violently. In the sky above, only clear blue stretched out in all directions. Not a single cloud interrupted the endless blue.

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The heavy pounding at his door woke Brian from his reading. A faint expression of annoyance crossed his face as he gently set down the leather-bound tome on a table and stood up. Walking on his bare feet, he padded over to the door and opened it slightly.

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It is only a dream, only a dream. Rim whispered to herself as her bare feet padded down the aisles of a field. Around her, green streamers of corn, trees, and even wheat stretched up high above, blocking off everything but tiny motes of blue sky. Part of her mind knew that birch trees and corn didn’t grow next to each other, but it drifted away as unimportant. The ground beneath her feet slashed with every step, but something called her, pulled her down the lane of green.