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Queen of the Sea 4

 Night and day were sharply divided. Her days started in the afternoons when she did rehearsals, practiced her stage persona, and endured an increasingly ridiculous costume wardrobe.   

As she mastered songs, she had to run through the performances in the ballroom as though it was for real, pausing for audience reaction and bowing and smiling and sometimes accepting flowers. That part was kind of fun. Microphones hidden in her clothes and the stage captured each song, but it...

Dragon ch 1

 A romantic perspective was that living up by the Spikes was a delicate dance. If you were quick and graceful, you could thrive in a beautiful, deadly place unlike anywhere else in the known worlds.   

Some people just said it was damned stupid. Magic was unstable here- more so than down in the valleys. It crackled visibly between the tall mountains, daring anyone foolish or power-hungry enough to come on up if they were hard enough.

Sometimes people did go up. Th...

pull down your dreams ch 3 draft

 The fucker just up and left her.
 
 'There might,' Regina reflected, 'be some very good reasons that Ando-san was surprised to see me with Jiraiya. I'm going to guess that he is unreliable, uncommunicative, and inconsiderate.'
 
 Also an incurable liar.   
 
 She didn't know much, but he had definitely told Osafune-san that she was his child. (She got 娘 and 息子 mixed up when she just heard the syllable...

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Queen of the Sea: part 3

Brianna watched the ballroom’s new sound system go up and tried not to think too much about the coffeeshop where she had sung on the open mic night for years. The difference was surreal and staggering.

She watched a trio of uniformed experts snake wire and do absolutely absurd, arcanely clever things to blend the speakers and equipment in with the historical décor. It was a pretty big step up from “there is now a rug over the wires, so no one trips and brings down the mic sta...

Bring Down Your Dreams ch2 White Elephant

 Chapter 2. White Elephant.
 5391 words.
 
 “Who are you?” her captor demanded.
 
 He used the exact same wording that this one infuriating youtube commercial advertising beer did, so it took Regina a moment to straighten out her emotions in response to that confusing input. She told him her name. The grip on her shoulder became a little painful.
 
 “Where do you come from?”
 
 He ...

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Living up by the Spikes was a  delicate dance. Some people just said it was damned stupid. Magic was  unstable here- more so than down in the valleys. It crackled visibly  between the tall mountains, daring anyone foolish or power-hungry enough  to come on up if they were hard enough.

Sometimes people did go up. They didn't always come back down.

But  people did make a living down here, and so some stayed. Some were in  the dubious business of r...

Queen of the Sea part 2

 “They've entered,” crackled through the speaker hidden in the podium.
 
 Brianna uncrossed her legs, but didn't stand up just yet.   
 
 The pianist was haunting an armchair on the other side of the room with a copy of a romance novel hidden inside an antique-looking cover.
 
 She opened her mouth and then sighed, keeping in what she'd meant to say. She had an annoying habit of saying things that were obvious. T...

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 'The drop site is compromised.'
 
 
 He didn't see anyone, but they were waiting for him. Jiraiya kept an easy smile and swaggered on up the road.   
 
 
 'Did my contact sell me out, or is it a third party?'
 
 
 Whoever it was waited until he'd stuck a key in the post box. The kunai thudded into a metal mailbox when he dodged. A postal worker inside looked up at the sound and sc...

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preview to AIC 28

 
 
 “I want to thank you for all of your work.” Her voice wasn't entirely steady. “All three of you exceeded my expectations. I'm sorry that I had to leave you in Konoha. You acquitted yourselves honorably.”
 
 
 Yuusaku didn't meet her eyes. Ryuusei shrugged insolently. “At least you got us out. Thanks for that.”   
 
 
 Kensuke glanced between his teammates, as though he didn't know how to deal...

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 Gaara was in her office the moment the door shut behind the new chuunin.


 Aiko gave a pointed look to the pile of sand that had accompanied his whooshing entrance.   

 The other redhead seemed not to notice. “I see you are well.” Gaara stated. “I have investigated. Saito-san is not responsible for the attempt on our lives this afternoon.”


 Her brows shot up. “Good evening, Gaara,” Aiko said. She glanced around her offic...

Queen of the Sea (one of two) : red lady

 'I've never seen one this close before.'

  “We call that one the Red Lady,” Imile said. She watched Brianna's expression with a pleasant smile. “For obvious reasons.” She tossed her hair and started walking again, not interested for long. “She dances every night that there's live music, so you will encounter her often.”

  'I've never seen a living woman that pretty in my life. She can't be real. That's... a really fantastic sculp...