“I think she came over to fight us.” Edwick chortled, clapping his hands.
“Duuuuuude that’d be so sick to see! I heard Dare kicks ass!” Winston hit Edwick on the arm.
“Back to the weaponized amphibians, I’m a fan of your work, what inspired it? I know Heather can be a pushy flirt, but you really knocked her out of orbit,” Evan said, using his hands while he talked for emphasis. Jack groaned and rubbed at his face.
“She’s mad, isn’t she?” He asked, already knowing the answer.
“Go back to the village?” Arden sounded aghast. “But it’s an absolute ruin... it pains me to...”
“Arden.” Yuma stepped up to the tall boy. “Maedra and I would like see our home... one more time before we go east.”
“What else can you hear?” Arden touched her arm as he ran beside her.
“Breathing and sounds of pain...” She replied, looking straight ahead. “The person is hurt.”
“You are Alvaine...” Sora reached out to touch her hand. “And you saved my life.”
“Your friends did, when they rescued you from the Laichanan.” She told the mystified girl. “I just happened to have the required cure for Laichanan claw wounds.”
This is from the second episode of "A Sun of Ice," which comes out on Saturday.
“You need us to help… you?” Navsi said, eyebrows arched, body leaning forward, sitting on the very edge of the sofa.
“That’s right,” said Skuld, the old woman with the book. “You may find this surprising or hard to believe, but we are not as powerful as we once were… No, this we cannot do alone.”
“Yes, six younglings, not yet ten years... Yuma and I kept them hidden with us in the Dark Forest.”
“She knows that...” Yuma snapped brusquely. “If she really was the one who killed those half-beasts about to eat us.”
“I’m getting out of here. I won’t tell anything about your freakish powers to the cops. Just stay the hell away from me. You freaky magicians.” Leticia warned the two of them that is when Amelia walked up to Leticia’s face again.
“Good. I just hope the leader of your band kicks you out for your shitty attitude.” Amelia spat, then Leticia cackled in response before she walked off.
“Bitch… I AM the leader of the band! Have a nice day.” Leticia smirked at Amelia, then she turned around to walk away.
“How many of us are we now?” Hari asked him as they stuffed all the food they could find into the already bulging sacks.
“You, Terek and I. Rubia, Maedra, Yuma and Sora. That’s seven of us, and the six young ones. And Kadrek and the Alvaine.”
"Are you sick?" I whispered, kneeling down in front of him and reaching out to check his sticky skin for signs of a fever. Min-Soo flinched away and shook his head.
"Aniyo, aniyo," he murmured again, squeezing his eyes shut in dizzying defeat.
“I bet that every boy she meets ends up falling hopelessly in love with her.” Yuma said, without any kind of envy as she sat under a tree. “She’s almost as enchanting as a fairy tale creature.”
“Yes, she is quite pretty.” Maedra sighed, sitting beside her sister. “But wouldn’t you think that there’s something strange about her.”
“What, your guts are wrestling before lunch again?” A rueful shake of the graying head went with an indulging spark in her brown eyes. “Skinnier than a tapeworm, like you don’t vacuum up everything in sight. Well, lemme see if I can fix something for you, ragamuffin.”
“Actually, I’m full,” he said, savoring her response in advance.
“Really, Mr. Fonseca? I’m not a kid, y’know.”
“I am aware of that,” he says with a nod. “Still. Hands off the buttons.”
“The owner’s wife knows of a house that can look after the young ones for a time.” Kadrek informed them as they gathered outside the Inn. “They would like payment made upfront.”
“Can they not care for the little children out of the goodness of their hearts?” Maedra knew she sounded naive, but that was what she truly felt.
“Anything else will happen to you today?” I asked, turning to Madge.
“The water in the sink came out boiling hot when I turned it on, even though it was set to cold, and no one had used the hot water in hours, my sister accidentally flung her spoon across the table and it landed in my orange juice, making it spill all over me, and on the way here two pinecones fell on my head.” Madge listed.
Albert leaned forward and placed his elbows on the wooden table. With a conspiratorial finger, he beckoned Thomas closer and lowered his voice. “Our company is investing more in automation. So grunts like me and Mark will be the first to get-” He drew a finger across his throat. “Laid off.”
Thomas's eyes widened. The grip on his mug tightened. Following his friend’s hushed tones, he whispered, “Is that a rumor or something? I mean, they can’t do that… can they?”
“Oh they can,” Albert tossed back his mug and wiped the residual froth from his lips. “It’s only a matter of time really.”
From WIP:
“Scowling is their job,” Liam said via too-classy-to-snigger Marina, indicating the guards.
“I was smiling,” Volya argued.
Liam wasn’t too classy to snigger.
"Your fingers were still in poor condition when you took the first dose of candidate one." The Doctor smiled slightly, "How long have you been able to move them so deftly?"
"Since a…few…days…ago…" Tristan pulled his hand back, staring at it before lifting the second one.
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“Your sister is wiser, little one.” Sora placed a hand on Yuma’s shoulder. “The Alvaine are fearless... and usually uncaring. Dainzel is certainly fearless, but not a whit uncaring.”
“Who are you calling little, miss fairy princess?” Yuma shrugged the other girl’s hand off her shoulder, making Maedra go red with embarrassment.