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From the Lands Turned to Soot



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Wed May 25, 2022 10:09 pm
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"You can take a break if you like," he said. "You must be hurting right now."
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Sat May 28, 2022 4:05 pm
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"Sooner I finish sooner I'll get out of your hair." She paused and wrung her hands, letting them rest for a moment.
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Sat May 28, 2022 4:08 pm
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"Even so. I don't mind at all!"
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Sat May 28, 2022 4:21 pm
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She glanced around to see what the others were doing, then into the darkness. She moved towards the map to look over it again. Perhaps she could convince them to let her make a copy. After all, what harm would it do to them? She frowned. Bug would object to helping her.
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Sat May 28, 2022 4:23 pm
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"Shingles is back!" Jackson announced from where they had finished with the tent. The scarecrow was just a speck on the horizon where they pointed, but they were loping along at a good clip.
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Sat May 28, 2022 4:31 pm
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That was terrifying, to see Shingles lumbering along at an uncomfortable speed for something so seemingly clumsy.
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Sat May 28, 2022 5:06 pm
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"Not as long as usual," Roland observed. "Good; I don't like him being gone for so long."
"What, worried he'll die?" Bug snorted. "That's less likely than a building falling from the sky."
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Tue May 31, 2022 11:55 pm
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Rhys frowned. "Pretty sure the guy can take care of himself." She reached for a flask well hidden in her coat and took a sip of the precious water inside. It tasted like metal.
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:23 am
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"Maybe so, but he is made of weak material."
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:25 am
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"That doesn't seem to slow him down." She went back to sawing and filing. More than halfway through this cuff.
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:34 am
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"Not at all."
Shingles arrived at the camp, looking dusty but otherwise the same.
"Hi, Shingles." Jackson waved.
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:41 am
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She kept working and finally managed to cut through the cuff. She looked around. "Anyone got something to pry with? Or is strong enough to carefully pull this apart enough to get his hand out?"
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 1:06 am
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"Let me." Jackson approached and grasped the cuff carefully between their fingers. They pulled once, and the cuff opened enough for Roland to squeeze his blistered and bleeding wrist through.
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:24 am
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"That'll need some cleaning and treatment. I don't have anything for that really." She did have some things but they were precious resources.
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Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:28 am
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"I have a little medicine," Jackson volunteered. "I've been saving it for in case Roland got sick." They peered at the wrist. "Oo, that looks infected. Is it warm?"
"It feels better than it did when the cuff was on," Roland said with a shrug.
"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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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
— Rod Serling