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Chapter Solstice (Pt. 6) 

Word count: 696
Released on: Dec. 23, 2020, 8:31 a.m.
Last edited: March 16, 2023, 6:18 p.m.
Book: Unreleased (99)
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The thing holding Ryoka’s arm bubbled. A clicking, jittery mass of flesh wobbled, gripping her other arm.
The first asked. Ryoka looked ahead and saw.
They realized she saw them at last. The buzzing grew louder. Ryoka tore free, leaving part of her skin behind in one of their grasps.
Ryoka ran left, down a street, pounding ahead as the shapes poured after her. She looked back and saw how they did not fit this—
She heard the roar. But she feared what the Dragon was, too. Was this the reality? Was Ivolethe…?
She had not gone far into the city, or so she thought. Ryoka ran past a broken light, beholding it now in truth; an empty sac, the glowing mucus spilled. The streets were flesh! There were eyes between the cracks!
The sky was watching her. Beyond the curvature of the world, it stared down at her. Ryoka screamed and ran and ran and—
The forest was no better. She halted as she left the outskirts of the city and beheld the trees. It was crawling from everything! Tiny pieces of the trees and leaves scuttled around. She had walked through them! Ryoka saw the mob following. No! No! She ran towards the trees since she had no choice.
One of them caught her. Ryoka saw the mouth open and open and open a third time as the head unfolded. She shrieked—
The spoon descended and smacked the fae off her. Ryoka saw Nama stride forwards and the gibber—the creature of—
The spoon descended and smacked the fae off her. Ryoka saw Nama stride forwards and the gibber—the creature of—
The round, furry woman waved her spoon around and the horde of things halted. Ryoka stared at her.
“N-Nama?”
Back, into the city. Ryoka Griffin saw the ground itself slithering back around—
Two furry hands seized Ryoka. She cried out, struggling against what she knew was—
Ryoka