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Ryel and the mosquito

Ryel and the mosquito

from Ryel and Arkmar: The First Six Pieces of Dream She took the back stairway, the steps plain and carven from the tower’s black basalt as if the whole thing was some sort of geological formation. Ten flights down and she was on the ground floor, not on the Street of Green Signs but on some even more subsidiary thoroughfare, possibly the Lane of Discarded Ants or the Alley of Unintended…

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Ryel 10: Six Down (rewritten)

Ryel 10: Six Down (rewritten)

X. Six down

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Ryel the elf maiden and Arkmar the dwarf and Elena the time tech sprinted across an open slope and then scurried from cover to cover until they began to hear sounds of chase. The pursuit grew as the three crashed through the undergrowth.

They came around a boulder like a tombstone for a giant, and Elena turned to throw a spell: Gro poj syk da. Instead of explosions or attacks of…

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Ryel Chapter 9: Chaos Theory, rewritten

Ryel Chapter 9: Chaos Theory, rewritten

IX. Chaos Theory

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The Storm Queen turned slowly into a course that would take her down on the dark side of the Moon, dark in its lunar night and also, in this full moon, dark in facing away from the World. Arkmar chatted with Ferd at the helm, and walked the circuit of the deck. The captain and crew were busy about him; Ryel and Elena disappeared below with grim looks on their faces, to do a…

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Ryel 8: To The Moon, rewritten

Ryel 8: To The Moon, rewritten

VIII. To the Moon

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The mates went about their business, the dwarf played through the combinations of the five pieces, and the wood elf, the high elf, the time tech and the sea captain frolicked below decks. Presently the sounds of frolic subsided and all Arkmar could hear was a buzzing chant—and a distant and increasing roar, as of cubic miles of water in motion. The actions of the crew too…

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Ryel 7: De Profundis, rewritten

Ryel 7: De Profundis, rewritten

VII. De profundis

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The journey from the hill inhabited by Davalon’s ghoulish friends to the place where Davalon thought they should ascend to Upper Dream World took several days, well, several day-periods, well, it took quite a long time. Arkmar and Ryel and Davalon were accompanied by a dozen or so ghouls, who did not tire any faster than Arkmar or Ryel or the drow, but even so they had to…

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Ryel Chapter VI. He was good deep down (rewrite)

Ryel Chapter VI. He was good deep down (rewrite)

VI. He was good deep down

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The flight from the face upon Ngranek was a silent one, but not one full of contemplation. Ryel managed to get the dagger out of her wrist, but it hurt incredibly; the rope burned and chafed her waist, the cold froze her ears, especially the pointy tips; her hands froze around the bronze-ish piece she gripped with a death grip. She managed, after a few scares and…

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Ryel rewrite, Chapter Five: On Ngranek

Ryel rewrite, Chapter Five: On Ngranek

V. With a face like that

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Ryel and Arkmar went from the House of the Iron Kindred straight to the zebra market. It was one of those stubborn bits of local practice that one did not hire a horse on the Isle of Oriab; one hired a zebra.

“But I don’t want to ride either one,” said Arkmar.

“But I do, and you’re coming with me,” said Ryel. “It would be hard to carry on a conversation if I was miles…

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Chapter 4: The Best Thief, rewritten (the sexy chapter)

Chapter 4: The Best Thief, rewritten (the sexy chapter)

IV. The Best Thief

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The Storm Queen sighted Baharna in sunny midmorning, and by noon they were sailing between the beacons Thon and Thal. Ryel couldn’t remember if they were kept lit on sunny days and couldn’t tell from the deck, looking almost straight up as the ship glided between the towers. The City of Baharna rose behind its docks of porphyry, sloping steeply up a ridge like a giant wave…

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