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Double Trouble – Chapter 9 – Rough Draft
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Double Trouble – Chapter 7 – Call Her George
Charlotte It took a few seconds for Reckt to open her eyes and realize she wasn’t about to be eaten. When she did, her first reaction was to launch herself at me and Mikaela, arms flung out wide. Mikaela looked like she wanted to sidestep, but I grabbed the sleeve of her shirt to hold her in place as Reckt threw her arms around our necks. Mikaela could have pulled free, the cloth obviously wasn’t strong enough to hold out if the both of us put our all into it, but she didn’t so she must have felt at least a little guilty. She just stood there, awkwardly, while I…
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Double Trouble – Chapter 6 – A Change in Perspective
Charlotte I ducked under a bit of webbing, privately wondering whether it was even worth avoiding the sticky strands anymore. They were literally everywhere at this point, and I was seriously considering the benefits of a small forest fire. Mikaela would probably shut me down if I brought it up, though. Too much chance of us losing control over it and all that… not that it would be difficult for us to put it out, but I guess there was something to be said for not burning a patch of the forest down to ash just because we got impatient. Instead, I ducked down and placed my hands upon the…
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Double Trouble – Chapter 7 – Rough Draft
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Double Trouble – Chapter 5 – A Sticky Situation
Charlotte “Something’s bugging me,” I muttered, sliding closer to Mikaela and putting up an audio-shield to keep our words from reaching Reckt. “You mean the unnatural silence?” Mikaela asked, glancing around. We were walking through the woods, a good distance away from the beaten track, towards the area the guild secretary had directed us towards. In theory, that was where the wolves lived – alongside a bunch of other stuff, like birds and insects and the like, which should have been making noise. They weren’t. That wasn’t what was bugging me, though, so I shook my head. “The spiderwebs, then?” Mikaela guessed, next. “I have noticed an abundance of them……
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Double Trouble – Chapter 4 – Get Reckt
Charlotte Reckt, it turned out, was someone we knew. Kinda. She was the girl who’d been right in front of us when we were still in line to see the secretary. The one who’d mangled the pelts she was supposed to collect. “Yo, Guild Master!” she called out even as she swung the door open. “Heard you wanted to see me?” “You’re taking on some rookies,” Denden declared, apparently taking her casual greeting in stride. “Wait, what?” Reckt asked, blinking. Then she noticed the two of us and a smile slid across her features. “Well, hello ladies~. Name’s Reckt. She and her – for the moment.” “Does it change a…
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Double Trouble – Chapter 3 – The Guild Master
Mikaela “Excuse me, miss, but… could I please see the Guild Master?” I asked, my smile bright and my eyes focused fully on the girl in front of me. This was the proper way to greet someone, so far as I was concerned. For some reason, though, the girl didn’t seem to be quite meeting my eyes – more like looking slightly to the left of me. “The… guild master?” she asked nervously. “May I ask if you have an appointment?” “I believe so,” I confirmed. “At the very least, he knows we’re coming.” “O-oh,” the secretary whispered. She seemed… relieved? “I’ll go get him then.” “That would be lovely,”…
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Double Trouble – Chapter 5 (Rough Draft)
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Another Site Update
The good news – the site is functional, and I think all my posts are on it! The bad news – the Patreon plugin basically just dumped every post I’ve ever made onto the site, and I don’t think half of them are even dated properly (that was another option I had to click, which I only did part way through the mass upload.) I’m currently sorting things into categories and trying to attach the proper dates to make them show in order. We’ll…. See how it goes? How long it takes? In the meantime, new posts I make on Patreon should automatically appear on the site before too long,…
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Double Trouble (Final Draft) – Chapter 2 – History Repeats
Mikaela “Do you have the money?” “Yes, I have the money!” Charlotte grumbled back at me in annoyance. “Just like I had it the last three times you asked!” “Yes, but are you sure it’s the right money?” I pressed. “Human coinage? Not Fallens?” “You do realize the gate here takes both, right?” Charlotte countered, crossing her arms and glaring at me. “Yes, but not everywhere does, so it’s in our best interest to get used to things now,” I explained to her as patiently as I could. I don’t know why I bothered, though, because all I got back was another irritated glare and huff. “Yes, I have the…
