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Day 20 – Job
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” For the sixth time today, Amrita’s focus spirit was cleaning the toilets. She watched as the fuzzy, glowing ball of pure concentrated magic lifted the scrubber and dutifully removed the several specks of dust that had accumulated in the last fifteen minutes. Then, satisfied
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Day 19 – Darkness
“Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.” Amber had been missing for sixteen years; she was legally dead for fifteen of them. She disappeared just before opening night of her high school’s production of Into the Woods. The show
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Day 18 – Folly
“Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy.” It happened overnight. One day, just seeing a capital R in bright red was cause for concern. The next, you couldn’t turn your head in Goldenrod City without catching sight of the emblem. Trendy teens stuck R stickers on every flat surface
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Day 17 – Grief
“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” The last time Faris spent a night in this castle, the place where he was born, he barely knew how to hold a knife. He didn’t know how to read. The part of his brain that stored
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Day 16 – Forward
“‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’” The following is dedicated to my Curse of Strahd group. I love you all very much; please don’t read this until March 8. Vignon had been coasting for one hundred lonely years. From city to
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Day 15 – Sun
“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.” I promise you that it’s going to happen, and that you’ll know it when it does. You can’t waste your time waiting for it. You just have to keep going until you find it.