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From the Lands Turned to Soot



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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:37 am
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"Very fast, very strong. With razor sharp claws and giant mouths. It depends on which one you're fighting but they're all powerful." Bug pulled aside his cape. "See that scrape on my shoulder? He grazed me."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:45 am
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"Good gods." She wasn't so concerned about Bug as she was her own existence. Every day there seemed only to be more evil things creeping up from the cracked and broken earth to consume everything that lived. A shadow seemed to pass over her countenance for a moment as she grew very quiet.
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:47 am
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"They can be killed," Jackson volunteered, hefting their sword. "It's really hard, but it can be done."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:50 am
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She just looked over the map, not answering.
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:52 am
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"Have you run into one before?" they asked.
"The human wouldn't survive that thing on its own, " Bug scoffed.
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin

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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:58 am
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"Only heard talk of undead things but nothing like that." She growled. One thing after another. Maybe it'd have been better of if she had run into one of the things.
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 3:58 am
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"They're not undead," Jackson said quietly. "I'm pretty sure they're all alive."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:00 am
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"That makes me feel better."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:03 am
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"It does?" They gave her a skeptical look. "They used to be people..."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:05 am
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She sighed. "It doesn't. It was sarcasm. They sound pretty terrible, actually."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:07 am
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"Ohhh." They nodded. "I'm not very good at understanding human sarcasm. They're very awful."
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:14 am
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She looked around at the four of them for a moment and then went back to the map. But she was staring blankly, thinking. Been doing too much of that lately. Ever since that one night.
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Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:59 pm
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Jackson watched her. "Are you okay?"
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Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:00 am
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She looked up and blinked. "Are any of us?"
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Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:34 am
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"I'm feeling fantastic!" Bug volunteered.
"Generally no," Jackson said. "But I meant, like, right now."
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You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.
— Eckhart Tolle