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December 09, 2023 03:47
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Somewhere on the Other Side of the Sky. . . .
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97.7%
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#FFB
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He never saw the body of the other girl.
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Is that Inshara or Nimh?
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December 09, 2023 03:38
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Thirty-Two: North
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88.2%
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#FFB
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cloudlander told me he was sure the crown was the key, and so I . . . borrowed it for him
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I wanna know who he was though
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December 09, 2023 03:37
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Thirty-Two: North
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87.7%
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#FFB
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“If I’d chosen her side, you would still be drugged, and I would have imprisoned you somewhere far less pleasant, boy
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December 09, 2023 03:36
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Thirty-One: Nimh
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87.3%
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#FFB
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“North is dead!”
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Liar
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December 09, 2023 03:34
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Thirty-One: Nimh
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85.5%
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#FFB
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“Your lover . . . was a cloudlander,” I breathe, the anger knocked out of me by shock.
“He fell, and I healed him, and eventually, he gave me Insha.”
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December 09, 2023 03:34
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Thirty-One: Nimh
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85.2%
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#FFB
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railed all my life against my divinity—but casting it off meant it fell to you
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December 09, 2023 03:31
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Thirty: North
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83.7%
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#FFB
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“How long?” I manage, my voice low. “How long have you been Nimh’s enemy?”
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December 09, 2023 03:26
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Twenty-Nine: Nimh
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81.5%
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#FFB
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He cares for you very much, sister. Come home, and he is yours
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December 09, 2023 03:25
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Twenty-Nine: Nimh
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80.5%
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#FFB
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I’ve failed them. I’ve failed all of them, because I was weak. Because I was human. Because I loved . . .
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December 09, 2023 03:20
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Twenty-Eight: North
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79.3%
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#FFB
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“But it will keep you safe from the magic of any who wish to harm you.”
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I feel like she’s lying
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December 09, 2023 03:20
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Twenty-Eight: North
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79.1%
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#FFB
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“If I let you go, I damn the world.”
I resist the urge to turn.
“If I stay, I let you damn mine.”
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December 09, 2023 03:19
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Twenty-Eight: North
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78.5%
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#FFB
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Not as a goddess, but as the girl who made me want to tie a red sash around my waist just to wear her colors, who asked me what it felt like to be kissed
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December 09, 2023 03:19
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Twenty-Eight: North
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78.2%
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#FFB
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“No, we have work to do. We must do this together, North.”
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December 09, 2023 03:18
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Twenty-Eight: North
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77.5%
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#FFB
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You have seen only a fraction of our suffering, and only for a few days. I have witnessed it my entire life. My people have lived it for generations.”
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December 09, 2023 03:16
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Twenty-Eight: North
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76.6%
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#FFB
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“One might collect the rain to water a garden . . . but one does not command the rain to fall.”
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December 09, 2023 03:16
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Twenty-Eight: North
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76.2%
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#FFB
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The Lightbringer shall rise
that the sky might fall,
and the blood of the gods rain down
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December 08, 2023 21:37
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Twenty-Six: North
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72.3%
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#FFB
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“I was so certain you were my destiny, and I yours,” she whispers.
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December 08, 2023 21:29
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Twenty-Five: Nimh
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69.7%
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#FFB
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“Insha. Inshara the usurper. She is your daughter.”
“She is the end of all.” Jezara stares straight into my eyes. “She is the Lightbringer.”
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December 08, 2023 21:29
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Twenty-Five: Nimh
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69.6%
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#FFB
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“This is the trouble with prophecy,” she murmurs, to no one in particular. “Everyone believes they’re the chosen one.”
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December 08, 2023 21:20
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Twenty-Four: North
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66.7%
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#FFB
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“Come,” mutters Jezara, Forty-First Vessel of the Divine. “We must go. Now.”
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December 08, 2023 21:15
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Twenty-Four: North
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65.5%
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#FFB
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“North, they are the villagers.”
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December 08, 2023 21:15
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Twenty-Four: North
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65.5%
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#FFB
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There are ghosts in those hills. If you keep on, they’ll never let you leave.
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December 08, 2023 16:59
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Twenty-Four: North
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64.1%
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#FFB
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This must be Jezara, written out of history for daring to follow her heart.
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December 08, 2023 16:58
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Twenty-Three: Nimh
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63.5%
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#FFB
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“He said these hills are haunted, and the ghosts won’t let us leave.”
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December 08, 2023 16:53
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Twenty-Three: Nimh
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61.4%
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#FFB
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Looking at him is like gazing at a map to a land I only ever walked in a dream—I’m utterly lost, and utterly certain I know exactly where I am, all at once.
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December 08, 2023 14:57
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Twenty-Two: North
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60.5%
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#FFB
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“I mean to say that none of us can choose everything that befalls us in this lifetime. It only makes the choices we can make all the more important. I choose to remain untouched, to honor my fate. That is my choice.”
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December 08, 2023 14:57
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Twenty-Two: North
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60.4%
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#FFB
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“She fell in love,” she says softly. “She acted upon her desires. She chose him.”
She let him touch her.
“And so she lost her divinity, and was cast out,”
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December 08, 2023 14:49
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Twenty-One: Nimh
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56.4%
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#FFB
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“You spend too much time around our goddess, boy. She is not for you to love. . . .”
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December 08, 2023 14:39
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Eighteen: North
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49.9%
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#FFB
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She brought me here because she thinks I’m someone worth killing to possess.
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December 08, 2023 04:48
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Seventeen: Nimh
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48.0%
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#FFB
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“I am Inshara,” the woman continues, “true vessel of the divine. I am a child of two worlds, born to commune with the Lightbringer himself.
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December 08, 2023 04:45
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Fifteen: Nimh
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45.5%
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#FFB
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“I believe the prophecy brought us together. North, this is our destiny.”
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December 08, 2023 04:29
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Twelve: North
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37.1%
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#FFB
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My name is Elkisa
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OH?
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December 08, 2023 04:29
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Twelve: North
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36.8%
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#FFB
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I mean, I don’t even get statues at home, and I’m a prince. Just saying.
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December 08, 2023 04:18
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Nine: Nimh
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30.7%
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#FFB
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For if his fate is to end the world, I must bring him to my temple . . . and I cannot let him leave.
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December 08, 2023 03:48
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Seven: Nimh
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24.1%
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#FFB
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They punish followers of the one they call the false divinity, suspending them in symbolic exile among the gods who abandoned us.”
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December 08, 2023 03:47
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Seven: Nimh
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23.9%
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#FFB
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But if he is as important as I believe him to be, then North’s life means more than my own now.
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December 08, 2023 03:45
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Six: North
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22.5%
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#FFB
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Her camp, her people, have been slaughtered.
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December 08, 2023 03:43
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Six: North
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21.6%
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#FFB
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“I can explain my magic,” Nimh replies. “And you just said you could not explain your engines.”
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December 08, 2023 03:20
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Four: North
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16.2%
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#FFB
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Something—someone—has sliced through my supply lines. It’s a clean cut across the lot of them. A tool did this, not the crash. This was deliberate.
This was sabotage.
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Boom
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December 08, 2023 03:19
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Four: North
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15.9%
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#FFB
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How did this happen?
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Sabotage or foolishness?
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December 08, 2023 03:03
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Four: North
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15.4%
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#FFB
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once, twice, three times
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December 08, 2023 03:01
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Three: Nimh
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13.8%
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#FFB
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For what hope have men if even the gods know fear?
But I too am a god—the latest in a long, long line. And I know fear; I’ve met it many, many times.
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December 08, 2023 02:49
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Three: Nimh
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11.5%
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#FFB
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When Jezara forfeited her divinity by committing the one unforgivable, unthinkable act for our kind—touching another—she tore my people’s faith apart and left only tatters for the little girl fate called to replace her.
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Oh?
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December 08, 2023 02:48
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Three: Nimh
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11.2%
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#FFB
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The high priest would howl to see me, and the Graycloaks would scoff and call me undignified—but in this moment, I’m no longer Nimhara, Forty-Second Vessel of the Divine; I’m just Nimh.
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December 07, 2023 23:47
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Two: North
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6.4%
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#FFB
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The pilot’s been working
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Yeah that pilot is him
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December 07, 2023 23:44
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Two: North
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5.6%
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#FFB
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We need to reclaim our understanding of the sky-engines, or one day they’ll fail beyond our repair, and it will be too late to do anything about it
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December 07, 2023 20:56
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One: Nimh
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2.4%
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#FFB
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mist is not malicious—it is a force of nature, the magic left behind by the world’s creation. It only becomes dangerous when it gathers into storms, and even then, its effects are never twice the same. But sometimes, very, very rarely, its touch brings along with madness a thread of future-sight . . .
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… cool
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December 07, 2023 20:53
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One: Nimh
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1.7%
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#FFB
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I have been a goddess for nearly ten years—and still, my people are waiting to see what solace I will bring them.
If I ever do.
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This is super interesting
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December 07, 2023 20:25
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One: Nimh
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1.2%
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#FFB
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but the politicians and priests who govern my life have left me no choice.
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Ooh Abby likes that idea
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