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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 2
Total: 9 (2-20)
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 Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:52 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
10, 1
Total: 11 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:53 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 9
Total: 10 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:54 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
1, 7
Total: 8 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:55 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
7, 7
Total: 14 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:57 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
2, 1
Total: 3 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:58 am
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Ryuukishin rolled 2 10-sided dice:
2, 2
Total: 4 (2-20)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:01 am
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 2:21 am
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"Your wisdom is appreciated," Keeper said, bowing towards the witch. "But I was told, once, that a dreamer could have power over his dreams. It did not work before, but now, perhaps..."
He stilled, looking intensely at the bowl. The bowl seemed to shimmer, as if it were a reflection on a rippling pool. It became translucent; the hound, desperate, plunged towards the bowl, but it disappeared entirely before it could reach it.
As soon as it was gone, however, it returned—not one, but two.
The witch smiled, and the two drank deep.
It did not take them long to finish. The hound licked the last drop from its lips, watching the buck. "I'm sorry, you know," it said. It remembered how the buck had spent two lifetimes to get it the cure, but despite the apology there was no guilt in its eyes. "I am a wild thing, and I must always look first to my own survival, and the survival of my kind."
Keeper said nothing; he merely leaned down, extracting the thorn from the hound's paw. It was long—nearly as long as his foreleg, and jagged and barbed—but it came out with no resistance, and there was not a drop of blood. He looked up at the hound, the thorn falling from his lips.
"I know."
And then, he woke up.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:59 pm
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Keeper did not hunt often, but it was not for lack of ability. Indeed, that night he went to sleep with the blood of his kill still fresh on his lips, and when he noticed the metallic tang in the air it took him a moment to realize it was not his prey's.
It was evening now—had he truly slept so long?—and he snaked out of his shelter in search of the scent, a part of him curious, and another part still hungry.
The trail led him through a thick clump of trees, and though their prone, broken forms hinted at the passing of a large and dangerous creature, he felt no fear. The landscape was familiar to him, and he picked his way to the clearing he knew he'd find at the center.
It was there that he saw it: the thoughtling that bore such an uncanny resemblance to his daughter.
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 10-sided dice:
1
Total: 1 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:11 pm
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 10-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:20 pm
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 10-sided dice:
10
Total: 10 (1-10)
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 10:01 pm
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 8-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:27 pm
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 8-sided dice:
4
Total: 4 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:28 pm
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Ryuukishin rolled 1 8-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-8)
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:29 pm
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