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Thu, 08/19/2010 - 4:55pm

Thursday, April 10th 1603
Royal Palace of Seabright
County Holdfast, Kingdom of Atlantis


waking in a strange bed Blue Wolf tensed as he sensed the high grade of magic in the air and then slowly relaxed as he recognized and remembered that he was at Seabright. There was a weight across his legs that grunted, stirred and barked when he tried to move out from under it.

“Staunch? What are you doing here, didn’t they give you a bed?”

The grey coyotekin yawned hugely and stretched before sitting up and regarding him with a level gaze. “I am helping guard you.” He said simply blinking at him.

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Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:57am

When my stomach told me it was time to eat, I excused myself from the living room and headed to the kitchen to make us a light lunch. I was glad of the interruption. While I was excited at the prospect of marrying Calla, I was also unsettled by the recent course of events. It was now 2009 and her future incarnation had claimed I would be dead by September. Nine months to live didn't sound like much.

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Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:40am

The next day the A-niah saw several thousand warriors moving through the trees, from the city of Roskat towards us. Mirko gave his army their day of rest on the day before, then set to travel by night to arrive a little before dawn. Roskati rebels have been creeping through forest for three generations now, so an entire army can do it without flashing a flame or snapping a twig.

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Thu, 08/19/2010 - 9:56am

Management detail.

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Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:00pm

"Uh, yeah, about that..." I said.

"What, do you have a problem with him too?" Calla chuckled. "He's your family."

"I've never met him before," I said.

Calla's eyes widened. "Pardon?"

"Yeah, I didn't even know I had an uncle until my mother told me in a letter with her will. I don't know why he came to the party or how he found me, but I've never met that guy. I don't even know for sure if he's really my uncle."

Calla put her hands to her face and looked really confused. "How... I mean, you acted like you knew him last night... you seriously don't know him?"

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Wed, 08/18/2010 - 5:40pm

By verekina 9, we had sufficient signatures to call the national vote, even with the mountain passes still closed. Traditionally, the date is set a moon hence to allow discussion, and then the final count happens a half-moon beyond that, but, on my suggestion, Assembly shortened the discussion to a half-moon, since everyone in the nation had been discussing it for a good half-moon already.

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Wed, 08/18/2010 - 2:54pm

To say the music was loud would be an understatement of criminal magnitudes. The music here wasn’t so much heard as it was felt, the bass quaking through one’s bones and forcefully shaking one’s brain. It was easily louder than the country western club they had gone to last semester, however this one had evidently possessed a designer with a modicum of sense. The club was split up into several different rooms. There was one outside, several for lounging, and one in where dancing was expected.

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Tue, 08/17/2010 - 10:00pm

I turned and looked at Calla, putting my arms around her waist. She obliged me by hugging back, looping her hands behind my neck and smiling up at me.

"Listen, about Matt..." I started to say.

"Shhhhhh," she said, smiling up at me, her voice soft but firm. "I don't need to hear any more. It's between the two of you, and you'll sort it out. He's your best friend."

"But there's more, he..." I protested.

Calla silenced me with a warm kiss and then leaned back to look up at me again. "You'll work it out."

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Tue, 08/17/2010 - 9:15pm

Catalyst requested: something in the history of Chatoyant College, with a connection to present-day characters and faerie interaction

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Tue, 08/17/2010 - 7:58am

"You're considering not asking Matt?" Calla asked me over her breakfast. "He's your best friend."

I put my fork down and steepled my fingers together, elbows on the table. I looked at her.

"Matt isn't the best person in the world, Calla. He and I have a... complicated relationship." I paused. I didn't want her to think badly of Matt, but I also wanted to be honest. His problems should have been just that, his problems, but he had dragged me into them. Calla had a right to know what had happened if she was joining my life.

"Complicated?"

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