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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I had two assassins that I removed. They didn't fit the story beyond their introduction and I found a way to have the scene without them. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 24 Magic is shockingly easy to learn. There are wild and incidental magics that lead one into a path: a prayer answered at a low point, profound luck in a clutch moment, a perfect prediction coming to life. It can lead one to a book, or online mentor.1/ #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Apex has an aloof demeanor that gets people to shrug off his casual disdainful treatment. If checked by the right person, he'll fly a little straighter. But behind closed doors, he will resort to physical violence and emotional abuse. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders day 24 Lawful society in America has their idea of democracy, with the illusion of checks and balances. Outlaw society is anarchist, co-opting whatever currency is local and relying on personal power to keep the peace. #writingcommunity

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 23 Most of my cast can wield magic and their magic makes them fearsome, living legends. Mr. Schadenfreude is enslaved because of his use of magics, while the Puppeteer uses alchemy to animate puppets to entertain children. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 22 Magic is important to Wish Upon a Mountain. It brings freedom to the wielder. It levels the playing field against temporal power. Outlaw magics are more than just displays of effort, but inspires others to join. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026

The Supreme Court:

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Johnny Law is the egregore of Law Enforcement. Many monsters with a sense of justice and a taste for human fear and flesh exist in the shadows. Cities can only protect people so much from the Boogeyman. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Creativity Maya and Schadenfreude are so creative, they're problematic. They act without hesitation and this has unleashed monsters and chaos upon the land. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Maya is learning that Johnny Law is her enemy. It's not just the police or any other higher enforcement, it's the concept of the Law itself. It has nothing to do with justice, it's all about control. Mr. Schadenfreude has fought Johnny Law. 1/ #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 18 People turn to magic because they are different and have trouble being part of the status quo. When populations were smaller, being different was important to keep everyone else's perspective. But as populations grew, the different perspectives 1/ #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#AwesomeCharacter Mr. Schadenfreude would eat them. There wouldn't be much violence, he would unhinge his jaw and swallow them whole. Mr. Schadenfreude respects the theater silence. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders In Lawful Society, it depends on how much the crime offends the status quo and whether or not you're wealthy enough to literally pay for it. For Outlaws, it depends on how angry the offended feels about it. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 18 The benefits are myriad. Right-Hand Path magi tend to have strong communities and concerted problem solving. Left-Hand Path gain personal power and can become the source to a Right-Hand Path community. Magic has become a workaround to Capitalism. #writingcommunity #writingq

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#Febchantment 18 #Atlantis: Kaana crystals gave the Na'aqals an advanced post-scarcity society while the rest of humanity was still in the stone age. They let them build complex buildings & canals with ease, grow crops fast & in any weather, store food almost indefinitely, heal most sickness 🧵1/9

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#WIPSnips Ladies and gentlemen… the premise. (And some archeological moralizing.)

“So, this knife, it just… showed up in their collection somehow?”
“That’s as much of the story as I have so far. One day it wasn’t there, next day it was. No tags or marks, no provenance documentation, just bang, in a case.”
From the moment an object is found, it begins to tell a story. If that story isn’t remembered or recorded, and it becomes separated from all clues of context, the story could be lost forever. That was the art of archaeology; telling the stories of the past. That was the value of every artifact in any museum or archive. Without those stories, those histories, objects quickly lost their value

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 17/02/2026

#Febchantment The thing about magic in the PD is that it's SO strong that those who have it are in charge and make the rules. In Ophidia, there are next to no rules for Godbloods. Even murder is on the table. In Aloutia, they try to stop the worst crimes by getting *good* Godbloods to police them

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Outlaws do have taboo actions and their justice is harsh, but comically fair. Someone steals from you? Get it back. Sex and most child crimes are were things get "choppy". Posses form and this is young outlaws mettle are tested. 1/ #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 17 Magic isn't illegal, but is seen as something mostly practiced by Outlaws. Lawful Society tries to make it seem dangerous; keeping people comfortable with gadgets, movies, primary colors and jangling keys. #writingcommunity #writingq

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#snippetshare Almost missed this! Mireia is mad at Kena (hey, ties into my WIPSnips for today!) and runs into an old crush, who isn't as impressive as she remembers... Just sayin girl, if your thoughts keep running off to another guy it might mean something! From Book 2 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

“But I don’t have to do what they expect, do I?” Mireia grinned, feeling strangely giddy. “I am the Sea! I can do whatever I please.”

“That’s right,” Toctha laughed.

“Though many shall love me,” she recited, taking a deep swig of the mead, “never will I be tamed!”

“Oh, I bet you could be tamed,” Toctha leaned closer to her. “If you had the right kind of man to do it.”

As he said this, his hand drifted a little further up her thigh, and his eyes devoured her hungrily. Had Mireia been a bit younger, she would have died to be touched like this by Toctha, to see his deep brown eyes looking at her like she was the only thing he wanted in all the Eleven Worlds. But something rather upsetting happened to her now. She found herself recoiling inwardly, thinking he was being far too bold, wishing he would back up a step. Something about the touch of his hand said that he thought she already belonged to him. Something about the look in his eyes said that what he wanted was not really to love her but to conquer her—and worse, that he wouldn’t have been able to distinguish between those two things if she’d asked him.

Without meaning to, her thoughts flew to Kena. She imagined him sitting on the other side of the room, watching this whole scene play out and rolling his eyes at Toctha.

“This oaf, Mireia? Really?” he would say. “A man who says he could ‘tame’ you? What does that even mean?”

Shut up, she snapped at Kena in her mind, all the while forcing a smile for Toctha so that he wouldn’t suspect where her thoughts really were.

“I bet he thinks he’s awfully clever for that one, too,” her imaginary Kena went on. “Pitiful.”

Shut up, I said, she snapped again, feeling ever more flustered and confused. Meanwhile Toctha, reading encouragement in her false smile, leaned in to kiss her. Without thinking, Mireia veered away from him. Her head was spinning and her heart felt strangely tight, as though it were being twisted and wrung out like a wet rag.

“What’s wrong?” Toctha asked, with a bewildered frown.

“Nothing,” Mireia shook her head, trying to get her thoughts working straight. “I’m sorry, I was just—distracted.”

“Distracted?” Toctha chuckled at her, though Mireia could tell that part of him was annoyed. “Am I boring you, Mireia?”

“No, of course not,” she laughed. But her laugh came out sounding so fake that she cringed when she heard it.

“What are you doing?” said Kena’s voice in her head. “Smiling when you don’t mean it? Laughing when there’s nothing to laugh at? Why are you doing that, Mireia?”

“Leave me alone,” she muttered, and realized too late that she’d accidentally said it out loud.

“What?” Now Toctha looked even more bewildered and annoyed.

“Nothing!” Mireia said hastily. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to—I wasn’t talking to you.”

Toctha’s eyebrows shot up; then he reached out and took the cup of mead out of her hands. “Right. I think you’ve had enough of this.”

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Alyssa Lauseng 🖕🏻🧊 @5feetofredfury.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Daisuke and Obito both enjoy the problem and puzzle solving aspects of being Imperial intelligence agents. They don't really enjoy the parts that involve bribery, blackmail, or being 100% loyal to the Emperor, though 😅 #AwesomeCharacters

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#AwesomeCharacters work Magic is the Work, and Maya and Mr. Schadenfreude love the Work. It is how one can circumvent the system, entirely, and why it's more widespread among Outlaws. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Nectar Vam 🇺🇸🇬🇷🕊️🐦‍🔥✨💜♠️ @nectar-vam77.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders 16 #WritingCommunity #Writesky #WIP #WritingPrompts #Writing In the Nequinum World, they have the Watch Guards; an organized, authorized force of armed, knightly folk who perform services of policing, nightwatching, public safety, fire watch, law enforcement, etc. 🧵(1/2)

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders In Hell, the angels and their conscripted armies enforce the laws. There are a wide variety of army units, including the guardians who keep the rifts secure. This is a good question in the 5GC, as I havent built much here... There is no official standing army... 🧵 1/6

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky They had a fight earlier 🥺 From Book 2 of my #Atlantis trilogy 💙🧡

As Mireia was flying out the door, with no real plan for how she would find him, she crashed right into someone on their way inside. Both of them grunted in pain, and Mireia’s heart flailed when she saw his dark curly hair and freckled face.
“Kena!” she exclaimed. “You’re back!”
“Oh, it’s you!” he said. “Sorry, did I hurt you?”
“What? No, no—I’m sorry, I’m the one who ran into—”
“I’m glad you’re here. I really want to talk to you.”
Her stomach churned. “Well, I—me too,” she stammered. “A’ure, Kena, about earlier—”
“I’m sorry.” He gazed at her plaintively.
That surprised her. “What?”
“I’m sorry for shouting at you earlier.” He shook his head in shame. “I shouldn’t have spoken to you that way. I don’t know what came over me. I was just so—so angry, and I wasn’t thinking. I hope you can forgive me.”
“You want me to forgive you?”
His brow knotted in slight confusion. “… Yes?”

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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 16/02/2026

#Febchantment Mortals, including arcanafauna, get hard rules. God are my fuzzy magic! Now, let's say gods have been messing with the soul of a human over multiple lifetimes, such as the emperor or [SUPER BIG SPOILER], do they get fuzzy magic too? 1/2

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Threefer today... Talia gets distracted by an old flame. Helena needs a drive to settle her nerves, and considers her tragic backstory. Nora ponders her ex.

Brian stopped talking and both he and Talia obediently found their seats at the kitchen table. She watched Elle pour the wine. Had she started dying her hair? She couldn’t remember the strawberry highlights.
Dr. Eloise Kerne was tall and broad shouldered, hard to miss when she walked into a room, sometimes even having to duck under a low lintel to fit her halo of frizzy auburn hair through. She had a ready smile that crinkled the corners of her hazel eyes and a broad brow that Talia had once dreamed of running her fingers over while laying beside her.
Suddenly conscious that she was staring, Talia tore her eyes away and glared at her salad. She’d never gotten that close, having only ever admired her from a distance. Sometimes she would imagine, out of innocent curiosity and with no sense of the macabre, what her bones might look like, stripped of flesh and lying on a specimen table. Such are the idle imaginings of those who study anatomy… always looking for what lies beneath.

Nora fingered the handmade lace curtains of her front window. They’d been the most ambitious project she’d ever attempted. Originally intended to be her wedding veil, it had taken her well over a year to weave it. When the engagement collapsed under the weight of Everett’s infidelity, her world had shattered. Their relationship had started out promising enough. Her first job out of school had been at the bank on Castro Station. She’d gotten the hang of the job pretty quickly, but hadn’t quite gotten the hang of her fellow staff.
“You always look so miserable over here.”
Nora glanced up from her console at the man who had perched the corner of his hip against her desk. Everett Sokolov was just like any of the suits who went in and out past her desk every day. She wasn’t sure what to make of his smile. Was he being condescending?

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#Febchantment Sadly, several of the most powerful uses for light magic in my Hell are major spoilers, and others are just lore. I suppose the creation of the world is a pretty big magic. And the gargoyles combining their magic to sheild the chapel is cool. In Mudlarks, this could be... 🧵 1/5

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders 15 In Atalantis, laws are made by the clergy & enforced by the monarchs. Each city & region has their own laws made by the local clergy, but these have to comply with the island-wide laws made by the clergy of the Temple of the Sun & enforced by the High King/Queen. 🧵1/6

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Ame ✨Comms OPEN✨ @autumnchildart.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#Febchantment 15 Elemental magic has different schools (fire, air, water, earth and wood), distinguished by color (red, purple, blue, yellow and green). Spiritism is white. Mentalism is mostly unseen, but has a dark grey color, often confused with the black of shadowmagic. #Ame_MagelingWIP

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders 15 In #Charagma world, we have Arx Lucis & Terra Tenebrae. The laws in Arx Lucis are made by the August Lord & other City Lords, a bunch of rich corpo-theocrats. They're all based either on scriptures or on holy messages the August Lord allegedly gets straight from El. 🧵1/2

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Paying? They steal whatever they can. They especially love going to big box stores and absconding with carts full of stuff. They will pay for art and food, but not much more. #writingcommunity #writingq

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders Day 16 In Lawful Society, it's the cops and the Heroes. Copaganda shows turn people into informants. The general idea of legality over morality. All of this keeps them feeling safe and secure. Outlaws, on the other hand, have no laws and justice is personal #writingcommunity

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Harvin Torres, The Quiddler, is writing Wish Upon a Mountain @mrschadenfreude.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 16 The most powerful magic is one that has yet to be used, but a terror to anyone who knows of its existence: Schadenfreude's Doomsday Engine. The keys are still in the ignition and the power source keeps gathering energy. #writingcommunity

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

From Queen of Thorns. Spear is talking to her mother.

“How can I forget?” Spear asked. “We never forget,” her mother said with compassion. “We just learn to live with the memories. We make the pain a part of our armor. It makes us stronger, but it also makes us vulnerable. He is the shield at your side. Aurora is the weaver of your strength. She is the fulcrum. If you keep that sword, you will overbalance and fall.” “I did that so much as a child. I was so clumsy.” “But now you are a strong soldier. You have learned. A mother. A Sister. An example to live up to.” Her hand went to her bald head. Mirroring her mother, Spear brushed her own stubbly hair. “But I did horrible things,” Spear admitted. Her eyes darted to where Maggie, Stonefoot, and River knelt.

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#WIPSnips Talia visits the university, where a student is using a 3D printer on an archeology project…

As the young man explained his project, Talia’s eyes wandered around the little corner, taking in the details and savoring the exciting atmosphere of academia and discovery that she missed so much.
There was a whole shelf of camera equipment near the student’s feet. Near the back were rolls of tape, bins of various epoxies, and a number of other tools beside sealed plastic bins of some kind of cartridge. She toyed with a pair of digital calipers that she found on another shelf and then picked up a scraper that looked like a small digging trowel and grinned. The tools of archaeology never seemed to change, even as the technology bounded ahead.

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NM Dept. of Memes @nmdeptofmemes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

gonna start referring to bricks as vegan eggs. probably taste as good as egg substitutes too.

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#FebruaryWorldbuilders In the fantasy, the Earth dimension is ruled by Sola, the creator God (semi-retired.) Hell is ruled by Lucifer and administrated by the angels and their armies. The 5 Galaxies Commonwealth is an oligarchy run by the Board of Chiefs made up of the CEOs of the… 🧵 1/3

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Scarlet Mitchell is a 👻g..g..ghost!👻 @scarletvmitchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#Febchantment In Hell, not really. Light magic is just light magic. Angels are stronger, chimericals are weaker. The only odd one out is shadow walkers; those whose light magic is actually the opposite of light. They use darkness and shadow in the same way as others use light. In Mudlarks? 🧵 1/6

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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#Febchantment Day 15 There are two main roads mages in this society can travel. Most are kinetic based mages and will be drafted by the military once their power manifests. Shifters and healers, on the other hand, are generally taken in by the priesthood of the Pantheon. 🧵

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💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻 @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

February 15th – never Speaking of romance… Fox has unexpectedly returned and Mikiva has feelings about it. But jealousy is definitely not one of them. #DawnsBlood #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Are you in love with her?”
“Miki, we already talked about this.” Av’ry pinched the bridge of his nose.
“That was when she was dead. When it was curiosity. When it didn’t really matter.”
“And it matters now?” He tilted his head slightly. “I thought you said you wanted to keep things casual between us. Has that changed?”
“No, of course not!” Mikiva replied hastily.
“Then why do you care?” He raised an eyebrow.
Mikiva wasn’t sure if he was taunting her or not.
“I don’t, it’s just… You and I, we aren’t… We…” Mikiva took a breath. “Look, if we are all going to be working together, I just want to know where I stand. With the two of you. I don’t want to be the third wheel, here.”
“I told you that it wasn’t like that between us. Fox is like my sister, not my lover.” Av’ry made a face even considering that possibility. “I had no reason to lie then. I’m not lying now. It was never like that. Does me being close to her bother you?”
Mikiva wasn’t jealous, she reminded herself. She couldn’t possibly be. It was too stupid, too pathetic. She refused to be jealous over him.

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