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From the Lands Turned to Soot



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Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:23 am
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She stared at them for a moment. "My hands hurt and I've hardly slept for a week but I've been worse."
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Sun Jun 05, 2022 4:25 am
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"Fair enough. Get some rest; I'll keep watch while you humans get some sleep."
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Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:07 am
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She paused, her eyes searching them for a moment, then moved over to the edge of the small camp with her hat and her other things.
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Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:09 am
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Roland had curled up by now and was half-asleep. Bug was pacing near the other side of camp from Rhys, and Shingles was circling at a distance.
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Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:19 am
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She found it hard to sleep at first, but eventually relaxed knowing that if they would have been dangerous they would have shown it already. At least being killed in one's sleep wasn't the absolute worst way to go anyhow.
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Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:24 am
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Jackson sat on a boulder and watched the sky, winding themselves up after a few minutes as they realized they were slowing down.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:18 pm
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And then it was quiet, except for the wind blowing the dust over the plains then eventually down into the ravine from where they'd come before. In a few hours Rhys would wake up briefly, and look around in the almost total darkness.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:22 pm
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Jackson and Bug were sitting together talking quietly, eyes gleaming like lamps against the darkness. Shingles was perched on a boulder a short distance away.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:34 pm
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Shingles gave her the creeps. But at least he wasn't hostile towards them. She rested her head back on the hard ground and drifted off again, but would wake up often if there was a noise. Used to sleeping by herself meant almost literally sleeping with an eye open.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:24 pm
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None of the three non-humans slept at all. Roland tossed and turned occasionally, shuddering and whimpering in his sleep.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:50 pm
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Before sunrise she was up and went back over to Roland to begin working on his cuffs again.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:03 pm
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Roland was munching on some stale rations. "How did you sleep?" he asked.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:05 pm
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"Pretty good." She went right to work.
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Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:26 pm
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"Glad to hear it."
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Fri Jun 10, 2022 2:15 pm
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Back to work it was. She took breaks but was determined to get the shackles off.


(Some time later we should do Echan and Gaius again...the tension between their morals (or lack thereof) was really interesting)
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