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Richard Pearman @graptopetalum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WIPSnips October 14th ultimate Tenacious and his friends are getting unwelcome attention from a strange police officer named Bland. From "Tales of Midbar: Exiled Angel" - www.inkitt.com/stories/624474

Background: A ruin on the edge of canyon.

"Anyway," said Generous, "they've produced a few anavim, most of whom have relocated to other sephirot but Bland, and probably the royal family, thinks they've been disappeared by the XT's. Therefore, he thinks that Beauty has some strange relationship with the XT's because she's the oldest of the anavim they've bred who hasn't disappeared and she's employing drop-offs and has a history of being
interested in them. It seems by their reasoning that Freethinking should also have disappeared but for some reason Bland thinks he's different from Beauty."
"The fake drop-offs were the only people I got on with!" said Beauty. "Later, I befriended some of the last real drop-offs to help fake drop-offs act realistically. By the way, all the real drop-offs I've met have been naviim and as far as I know, they all married naviim, often other drop-offs and formed a true-breeding navi extended family."
"It sounds like they're doing the same thing as us," I said. "Only nibeyim can't teleport."
"They can go through wormholes," said Freethinking.
"That's very dangerous," said Breeze, "and requires difficult magic."
"It's more likely they're just coming from off-world or perhaps the Big Sea," said Fascinating.
"But none have come in the last forty years," I said. "And now a bunch have disappeared, including descendants of the ones from forty years ago."