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In The Halls Where She Nodded Nearly Napping by Fafnir313, literature
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In The Halls Where She Nodded Nearly Napping
There was a hiss, a roar, and then a wave of cheers. Morta sat with her legs crossed in her elliptical amphitheater, staring over the liquid sands of the Colosseum. A string of purple grapes lay across her shoulder. She popped a fruit in her mouth, chewing slowly, fixated on the mock naval battle.
The Gnatu flooded the basement membrane with dense fluid and took command of elaborate rafts with cast iron carronades. The volleys came fast, the acrid scent of gunpowder filling the air as splinters of wood ruptured and peeled.
Morta smiled, a chunk of ivory rosewood slapping against her knees.
She loved ringside seats.
The booming thunder of a belching long-nine and the shriek of spherical cast iron shot colliding with the mast. She licked her lips, savoring the taste of metal and sawdust, sulfur burning her nose.
Gawds, it felt nice to be home, but Morta missed the screaming. The Gnatu used to scream for her when she was a little girl, but now they just saluted, going down
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Manage and Schedule Journal Drafts in Studio
Journal drafts are joining the party in the Studio! Previously, unfinished drafts of journals could only be found in the Posts tab on your Profile, but with this and a few other quality-of-life improvements, Studio is the one-stop place to manage needs of both your visual and written deviation drafts!
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DT_(27)_The World Will Always ... by DarkSaxeBleu, literature
Literature
DT_(27)_The World Will Always ...
... It's snowing outside. It's Christmas Eve. There are old memories and memories yet to be ...
He was a kid of about seventeen, tall, lean, his hair the bright colour of the Sun, more so the tan. He came bobbing up and down the road, struggling ferociously with his balance, mastering his runaway bike, quite the challenge on the severely uneven ground. I approached, encumbered with all the necessities for an emergency picnic, since out of the blue it finally stopped raining – and halted long enough for one to swiftly gather the bare necessities and gallop, as quick as one can, to the lake side. The locals, each, gave what to their minds were very clear instructions as to how to get there, but to me the situation was not so clear: various reports of secret pathways, more than plenty of growth and new growth after the rain and the plant life cheerfully shot many feet up, successfully covering everything beyond it except for the blue, blue sky. In short – I got lost. Maybe not so much