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Alex White
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June 14 - June 30, 2025
2869?
“The same year everything on Clarkesfall began to die. The year before the Famine War began.”
Rage, fear, and shame swept through Boots
Simile extended
They’d made a meal of her people, siphoning away all of the life on her home,
tiny components of the most cataclysmic spell ever cast.
Give the Taitutians a taste!” She made for the controls. “Of what? Billions of pointless deaths?” said Aisha.
Battle-ready. The captain ain’t going to fix this.
if you did, you’d be just like the monsters who built this ship—and each and every person in this room would put you down like a dog.”
People have to know what happened to Clarkesfall.”
Simile extended
Haha
2894 PGRF championship tracks?
“Just because we want revenge on the actual perpetrators, doesn’t mean we can be reckless about it!” said Boots.
“In five days, they’ll have completed another, ah, bigger spell.”
“How big?” asked Cordell.
“Um… all life in the galaxy big.”
Mother, the commander of the Blackstar.”
“Major Marlisa Gwerder—
What does? Question
Harriet Fulsom,
Kendall Hopkins,
Claire...
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Dwight Ma...
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Haha and a bit more than that.
setting up the biggest heist in the history of the universe: billions of lives’ worth of magic.
“Human beings are almost perfect batteries and conduits for magic.” Ch. 20 p. 373
Cyril Clowe
Uziah Lesinski
I don’t have access to long-range scanners from my current connections.” “What?”
I’ll run escort so we can—” “Starve to death or run out of oxygen,”
“I’ll get Kin connected to the Harrow’s main computer core. With our magic and direct access, Orna and I should be able to tear up the main cyber defenses and get him completely integrated.
He can get us access to the remaining systems and act as station crew. He’ll fly the ship for us.” Cordell scowled. “That’s illegal for a reason. If he starts making decisions on his own, we can’t stop him.”
Haha
“They already know you’re here,” said Kin, new alarms spraying across the bridge like a belt of red stars. “They transmitted unlock codes, and finding me, their AIs are trying to break my hold over the ship.
Mister Vandevere,
Armin
Find a station and interface with the ship—I want that datamancy working overtime.
Aisha and Boots
Haha
She wanted to be sure her dermaluxes were as optimized and flexible as they could be for whatever might be coming.
Haha
given the ship’s evil nature, perhaps she didn’t want to know what the labs were for.
She was the fastest in the PGRF. Her reflexes were legendary. Her rookie year had shocked even her staunchest critics. Her eyes were quick, able to discern perfect detail at long distances. Her ears were finely tuned to the sounds of machinery. Nilah Brio was a galactic talent, and it was time to prove her mettle.
She only had time to replace one instruction: KILL became PROTECT.
Her Flicker began to flow, gracefully transforming from one move to the next, preserving her momentum.
Three springflies remaining. Accretion’s pull, nebula’s birth, rising rocket. Two remaining. Disrupted orbit, cold star. One. Singularity.
Why these phrases? Question
Boots
Mother’s hacker crew had stopped them from directing the Harrow’s automated defenses to destroy the enemy battle cruiser.
Who are they, and where? Question
The spells began to eat away at the battle cruiser’s hull, covering it in creeping rust.
The world flashed gray, and by the time Boots could blink, the battle cruiser was settling
The witch had pulled her ship outside of time long enough to land it.
That’s cheating. But convenient for Mother.
