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Dad caught sight of my faraway form, and it was like he suddenly remembered I was there. A big grin spread across his face and he took a dive in my direction. He and Amanda both returned to where I waited, he rumpling my tunic and laughing, she giggling. I felt the tiniest prick of jealousy. I'd never be able to race with her like that, so fast that she had to fight to keep up and was reduced to breathless laughter after.The two of them phased between shimmering translucency and their human-like colorings, as wind spirits are wont to do when they're high-energy. Amanda elbowed me, and I smiled."So Sky," Dad started, his eyes bright. "I tol...

Foreigner --- Part Three: Fire Lord Ozai --- Chapter Seven ---             "Zuko!"           The toddler whipped his head around. His ponytail swooshed against his scalp, and the grass tickled between his toes. He giggled.           "Zuko, c'mere!" his cousin called. Zuko turned from his pursuit of a brown flying bug that zipped around the field's airspace, and instead ran towards his cousin and uncle. He shrieked as his toes hit hot sand and the ocean's slow tide filled his ears.           "Zuko," Iroh laughed, lifting his nephew into his arms. Zuko laughed again and waved his fists. "Ung-ko!"           "That's right," he chortled, as Lu ...

The clock is striking 1 a.m. My skirts are too big for the door Inside, the silver silk looks gray and dull. The prince's eyes were cold and hard The slippers shattered as I ran I pull glass slivers from my bloody feet.

Dad caught sight of my faraway form, and it was like he suddenly remembered I was there. A big grin spread across his face and he took a dive in my direction. He and Amanda both returned to where I waited, he rumpling my tunic and laughing, she giggling. I felt the tiniest prick of jealousy. I'd never be able to race with her like that, so fast that she had to fight to keep up and was reduced to breathless laughter after.The two of them phased between shimmering translucency and their human-like colorings, as wind spirits are wont to do when they're high-energy. Amanda elbowed me, and I smiled."So Sky," Dad started, his eyes bright. "I tol...

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESSChapter Four Transformation * Come, the kingdom is in danger!Please, won’t you believe me?Get out of there... Deep blue eyes. Link... I woke with a start. The woman's voice faded from my mind. What time is it…? I groaned, then dragged my hand up to cover my face. My hair tangled in with my fingers. It couldn’t be long before sunrise, could it?No bothering with getting back to sleep, not now that the night was more of a penetrable grey than simple, sheer blackness. I’d be up at dawn, anyway.I stood up and stretched, then went to splash water on my face. I looked up from the basin to my mirror. My reflec...

ForeignerChapter Six                      “Tell me, tell me, Mommy!”            Maylin laughed softly. “Which story, dear?”            “My favorite,” Katara wiggled, settling down beneath the covers. As always, Maylin glanced around the room, then pulled down the rice paper blinders for the window, and shut the door.  It was their secret time.            “Once upon a time,” Maylin started, her voice low and soothing to Katara’s young ears, “a long, long time ago indeed…there lived a special man.”            “What kind of man?”            “Oh, a grown-up man…”            “Did he have a beard?”            “I imagine so.”            “And did ...

“Do you even know what ‘witch’ means?” the sea witch asked me. She traced a shell-like fingernail across the spine of one of her bound collections, mouthing the foreign title’s pronunciation.A tremor wriggled its way through my body, making the webbing between my fingers flutter in the current. “It means…a woman who does magic,” I said, my gills contracting unevenly. I folded my arms tightly around my dark brown, scaled torso and flushed my fins forward so I could back away – subtly, or so I thought. “Evil magic,” I added in a mutter, avoiding her eyes.The sea witch turned away from her shelves of accumulated records and gave me a long, un...

No. 9Sometimes a special someone will just drop into your life And somehow let you slip inside his heart and shine the light To see the scars and wounds he doesn't share with anyone There's sadness but there's peace - you have been granted special trustSo suddenly you have this tiny creature in your hand A work of art so beautiful, so fragile and complete - It's bruised from early beatings, cut and calloused from mistreatings, But strong and wise and smiling; always, always filled with loveWhat do you do? What do you say? How not to hurt this man Who took a risk and placed his inner pain into your hands? It's more than that. There's more t...