Not for the Faint of Heart
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Read between August 7 - August 13, 2025
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At the time it had seemed important; the fox had become tame enough to take scraps of meat and twists of hide directly from her hand, and putting a hat on him was the next logical step.
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This was the sort of thing that, quite frankly, made Mariel want to kill them all.
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She knew Clem was a healer, knew she was her best chance at getting out of here alive, and she was just lounging there palely like a picked mushroom instead, looking half dead and fully furious in the failing light.
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“Yes,” Clem said. “I’m holding your hand. I’m making my move. I understand that you have trouble expressing your feelings and that my violent kidnapping was just your way of telling me you like-like me.”
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Nobody had ever pinned Clem to a tree before. New experiences were good for the soul.
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I can tell you straight away that they won’t be using the hunting lodge out to the west, because there’s a bear in it.” “Nice,” said Josey. “Live-in protest. Bears for the cause.”
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“Mariel was hatched from an egg, soft-boiled in the fires of hell.”
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She sort of wanted to pick a fight with the captain, but maybe just so Mariel would lay hands on her in reply.
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“What time is it?” “Uh, I don’t know. We’re in a hole. It’s hole o’clock.”
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felt a stab of grief for her younger self, and for the person she might have been.
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“You were wrong. I am your reckoning.” It didn’t feel good when she ran him through, but it didn’t need to. It just needed to be done.