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Fireplaces were not particularly useful in Ignis, but Amber wanted to have one anyways. She sometimes wished kipitins could die, because then she could just have saved up and bought one of the transported buildings that were already present in Smoke City. Kipitins didn’t die, though, and so she was going to have to get creative, because she didn’t want to rent. The buildings in Ignis were cool, she would agree on that much - the grown metals, crystals, and glass were really cool vi...

Fog coated the glass with each breath Anahera took. It made it difficult for her to see the interior of the snow globe, and was the inevitable result of how close she had pressed her face to her shiny new trinket. Well, strictly speaking, it wasn’t hers. It was her mom’s snow globe. They had gone to a shop, and Stellara had spotted the snow globes and gotten an idea. She was now excitedly talking about it on the phone to someone - Anahera wasn’t sure who. She could make ou...

Mirrani could feel the sneeze sitting at the top of her nose. It made her eyes water, and her face itch. It just hung there, even as she tried moving her face to try to dispel it. She did not want to sneeze while she was trying to make a potion… “Are you alright?” She jumped, a terrible movement while squatting, and managed to lose her balance, tipping over into one of the stools in the workroom. It began to fall as well, but its movement was arrested by Violet’s ...

The destruction behind Roksanni occupied most of her mind, up until her feet touched something cold. She stopped in her tracks, looking down in wonder. She hadn’t felt snow in what felt like forever. She breathed deeply, filling her lungs with the cold air, the bitter bite of the wind on her skin… It was incredible - the truest freedom. Snow fell into her hair, melting in it and wetting it. She found herself smiling, found herself laughing for the first time in years. When a...

A hand on her wrist paused her packing. “I’ll go with you this time,” Corinne said. Weaver wrinkled her brow at her partner, lower arms still paused in their motion. “You hate when I do this.” Corinne rolled her dark eyes, putting her hands on her hips. “Yes, because it means we lose progress on our experiments. But I know you’re not going to stop it, so I’m going to go with you.” Seeing the look on Weaver’s face, she huffed. “The guards almost got y...

Roksanni read the newspaper a second time to be sure what she was seeing was right. War… She hadn’t really thought another would come, but here they were - and this time it was not humans driving it, but dextroluma. Her whole body felt like it itched, and everything felt sharper. She didn’t want to go to war again. She didn’t want it, she didn’t want to do it- …but she remembered crazed black eyes fixed on her from inside a rotting corpse, full of hatred. ...

Eclipses didn’t mean anything to Anahera. It was just a weird word, but crucially, it was a party she got to stay up for and wear fun clothes for!  Whatever it meant, she didn’t really care, because it was obviously a great thing! Her mother had gotten her a sparkly dress that went from purple to black and had a lot of cool golden sequ...

“I was expecting things to look more… metal-y.” Solaria laughed softly at the comment from Blossom, standing behind her in the open airlock as the agriculturalist surveyed the floor where her family grew their Arboreal mushrooms. “Well, about two centuries ago you would have been right,” she said. “But we’ve had plenty of time in this baby to get everything nice for our farming.” “Some mushroom farms don’t care about looking nice,” Blossom pointed out, fina...

The off-duty guards stared at the dish Queen Diana placed on the table, looks ranging from concerned to intrigued to disgusted. ”This is a bowl of Queen Iola’s famous stew,” Diana said, her tone exaggerating the word ‘famous’.” Nervous giggles erupted from some of the guard, who had only heard rumors from others, while the ones who had been to the Verdant Castle backed off immediately. ”I’m offering one week of va...

The place that Silsana had surfaced after the storm was… unfamiliar to her, to say the least. She was fascinated by all the strange green things and the sounds she heard as she walked. It was completely different from anything she knew in the depths where she lived, and wildly diverged from the little experience that she had of land within the Blighted Wilds. At least she was still the same, or she might have suspected she was hallucinating or dreaming. But all four arms was t...

The winds had been high that evening, and so, Cecilia Moss was ensconced firmly in her bed with a blindfold wrapped around her eyes so they could finally enjoy some respite. Even in one of the most interior parts of the Castle, there was still enough motion of the air for her to be exhausted by it, especially after having to do a training session outdoors for some of the Royal Guard… Cecilia really didn’t want to leave her room at all today. Especially not for dinner… Iola had be...