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I made it back home from Teddi's Isle. The kids were already awake and playing in the alleyway near the main street. Many of the women at the camp made breakfast. The few men who lived here helped provide food for the women and children. I usually stayed out of the way and played with the younger kids. Halls Street has lots of middle-class shops. They're less policed than the higher or lower-class shopping districts. It's easier to stay out of view here, especially since many of the shop owners don't know that we're here. "Where have you bee...
TRIGGER WARNING!!!Violence, people trafficking, murder, death, rape, corpse mutilation, suicide, and suicidal thoughts. My body felt so light that I could float away, but my feet were like lead. My eyes were dry, and my lips parted, and I could not close them. I felt trapped in the warped wardrobe I was hiding in. All I could see through the crack in the wood doors was red. Everything was covered in red blood. The silence rang throughout the lifeless room.My breathing was shaky, but my lungs were ready to burst. The dry roughness in my throa...
Trigger Warning: Talks of death, trafficking, and violence. "Stop! Thief!" A man shouted. A group of guards were nearby flirting with a waitress from my favorite tavern, Sigi's Tavern and Inn. The shorter of the three guards fumbled his weapons when the man shouted, tripping the guard to his right while the last guard took off running after me. I laughed and turned my jog into a sprint heading towards the maze of alleyways. Left, Left, Right, and another left, I should arrive at a flight of stone stairs. Run off the top while no one's l...
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Trigger Warning: Talks of death and emotional distress. Birds chirp, dogs bark and the people in the villagers exchange their daily conversations. The breeze blowing through the trees or hooves clacking on the stone roads—I can hear all the sounds around me. The sounds of nature are soothing. However, the noises the people make are unsettling. I've never been allowed to make a noise myself, at least not around people. I was gifted with an affinity for sound magic at a base skill level of 5. It's rare for someone to be gifted with such a high...
Trigger warning: This story mentions suicide, death, and profanity. "Liza!" Laura called for me from the kitchen. "Liza, I need you to go into town and pick up a few things for dinner." "Okay," I called back to her. She was the woman who raised me after my mother died during childbirth. I was my mother’s only child, and my father committed suicide after her death. I heard rumors that it was because he couldn't support a child. The stigma of abandoning children in this country is tough. He would have never had another job unless he fle...
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