📚 The Firedrake--Working on Ravensgameさんのイラストまとめ

He wanted to give her a #taste of magic: the way it felt to soar with the birds; the bloom of fire in her bare hands; the scent of starlight and the crescent moon.

She learned eagerly, studied hard. Before long, she would become the master and he the pupil.

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Sleeping in the #frozen wastes at the world's top lived a monster. Sometimes it roused in the night, screaming colors into the sky. Sometimes it lay quiescent for years, its dreams full of chaos.

When it fully woke, shelves of ice fell; crevasses gaped in the earth.
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Despite being sarcastic, even #antagonistic, Carla's sister shadowed her everywhere she went. The park, friends' houses, the library, even school: Lark was always there.

"What did you expect?" Lark responded when asked. "You were the one who summoned a demon sister."

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It was only a #dream, he told himself. He'd spent the night trying to erase the image running through his sleep-fogged mind. The rows of eyes, the heavy darkness were only phantoms of slumber.

But at the corners of his vision, he continued to catch glimpses of eyes.

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After beating around the bush for days, William finally gave Rose the straight #dope. It was a plan to trap & sell the strange creature they'd seen at the edges of the estate.

She agreed. But that morning, she put on her slippers and headed outside to warn her friend.

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It was not precisely #telepathy. The sympathy which existed between the children, all of them mirror images, was far deeper and more profound.

When one bled, so did they all. When one was sick, each became ill. And if one died...

None of them could bear that thought.

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"You'll be taking the course on a #pass/fail basis," said the instructor. "If you can navigate the asteroid belt and avoid the gravitational pull of Jupiter, you'll pass."

"What if we don't?" asked the trainee pilot.

"Then you'll never have to worry again."

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