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now above, once under
Let’s go back before that, to rats in a library: do you think, if I went back to them, they’d recognize a little girl named Ola who used their tunnels to sneak into the library to read books and dreamed of dragons to save her?
power structure
I’d never lived among people shorter than me. These brown people weren’t even that much shorter, just half a head or so but standing with my eyes above the people
Percy
Passionate Percy, have mercy on this mortal, for terror and evil have they known.
arm of mercy
I don’t know what they called the building in the middle of nowhere so I’ll just describe it. In the falling twilight, the walls looked like storm clouds squished into huge blocks and stacked
stronghold
In the story books I read at home, the captured maiden was always blindfolded or asleep and never knew where her captors took her until
embrace
They wrapped me in branches, bark as rough as stale bread, and carried me kicking and screaming, still invisible
stew
The first salamander I accidentally stepped on squelched and blood dribbled out and I hurried on. The second I stepped on
out the door
I am grateful for Simone burning my hair off so it didn’t end up as stone, I am grateful for my sea god genes so only
to break a curse
The rats and I had agreed I would break their curse and they’d let me free. Of course, they never
