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Thread: The game
Post: The game
| The little pawn shop tucked away between two abandoned buildings looked like it hadn’t been cleaned since it had opened. The faded sign above the door hung askew and pointed away from the shop as if t... |
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Mordecai |
The Silk Houses
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05-05-2022, 09:08 PM |
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Thread: [open] the seasons may be a battle of their own
Post: RE: [open] the seasons may be a battle of their ow...
| Mordecai halted at the edge of the flowerbed, dropped to his knees and picked out the plants he needed from the overturned earth. No sooner than he was done collecting what he needed he looked to the... |
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Mordecai |
The Celestine
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05-01-2022, 10:23 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| So she was one of the Ascended then, an enemy of the city he called home. He glanced at the dagger she had given him, the sharp edge glistened in the last light of the day and he idly wondered if ther... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-27-2022, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| The question was always the same, at least they had some common ground in that regard. She would always be asked about the white of her skin and he would always be asked why he lived in a brothel, tha... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 09:28 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| Mordecai flinched at the dagger. So she did have a weapon all along.
What if she tries to kill me?
No, that didn't make sense.
She could have, but she didn't. Means I can trust her, a bit at least.... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 08:14 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| That went well.
No story had to be made up, no excuses brought into existence, the woman was just going to leave by herself because. Well... why? The only pain he suffered for it was the small embarr... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 06:53 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| [say]"You're small for someone twice my age,"[/say] he snarled. Petty, he knew, but the best he could come up with. Maybe he ought to have been more frightened, the way she'd approached without making... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 04:34 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| [say]"Well they're wrong,"[/say] he sniped back, [say]"and I'm not a kid."[/say]. She wasn't the first or last to make the mistake of poking his touchy pride by throwing him in with mewling infants th... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: visions are seldom what they seem
Post: RE: visions are seldom what they seem
| Cai cursed under his breath. Coming out here at this time made his skin crawl and the mocking laughter of the crows had startled him. They had watched him with their glinting, beady eyes, perched high... |
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Mordecai |
The Hanging Tree
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04-22-2022, 03:01 PM |
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Thread: [open] the seasons may be a battle of their own
Post: RE: [open] the seasons may be a battle of their ow...
| Mordecai rubbed the inside of his red, itching hand. There was a bitter irony in having to search The Celestine for nature’s cure to a wound it had inflicted upon him. He knew he should be thankful to... |
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Mordecai |
The Celestine
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04-22-2022, 12:12 PM |
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Thread: up above the world so high
Post: RE: up above the world so high
| [say]”Of course not,”[/say] Mordecai scoffed and almost sounded indignant. How could anyone forget such a thing? Quick to realise his mistake, his frame retreated a little further into the warmth of t... |
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Mordecai |
The Falling
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04-22-2022, 09:41 AM |
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Thread: up above the world so high
Post: RE: up above the world so high
| He froze on the spot, opened and closed his mouth a few times like a fish washed ashore before his jaw ultimately snapped shut. What was there to say? To his horror he wasn’t sure if it was ruder to t... |
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Mordecai |
The Falling
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1,782 |
04-21-2022, 12:38 AM |
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Thread: up above the world so high
Post: RE: up above the world so high
| Quiet as a fox, Mordecai slipped out of a side entrance leading into Mother Molly’s and left his small, dusty room behind him. The inhabitants of the brothel were rarely in the habit of sleeping at ni... |
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Mordecai |
The Falling
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04-20-2022, 11:18 PM |
