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    Febuwhump Day 26 - Concealing an Injury + Alt Prompt 8: On the Run

    Old Man Wind has lived in Malli’s district since before she was born.

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    26 May 2025

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    "They’re going to be exiting hyperspace shortly, somewhere in the Alderaan system – which can’t bode well for Organa or his spitfire daughter – and Cody figures he’s got limited time to figure out how to: a) commit some more sabotage, but better this time; b) rescue a princess and baby Senator with an attitude problem disproportionate to her diminutive stature; and c) get the kriff off the Death Star with Baby Organa and whatever information Vader was torturing her about."

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    13 May 2025

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    "How long have we known each other?" Her voice felt rusty.

    Raoul was sprawled next to her on the bed. He blinked at the ceiling and cracked his neck. "Twenty years?"

    "Twenty years," Buri sighed. She felt like steam was rising off both of them. "We could have been doing this for twenty years."

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    Sometimes it takes a while to go from friends to lovers. But it helps if you can read each other's minds.

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    01 May 2025

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    Alanna asks Neal to be her squire. They spend the next year wondering if that was really such a good idea.

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    30 Apr 2025

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    Kel sat and thought about it all through the long summer-- thought about joining the Riders when she turned sixteen, or going back to the Yamani Isles with her parents, or running away to become an unlawful bandit hunter. She drank tea with her mother and accepted her quiet sympathy. She wondered what was going to happen to Peachblossom. She did her morning glaive practice dances in the heady air of the tiny courtyard garden of her parents' townhouse, where the cook grew herbs and spices in big overflowing boxes.

    Summer rolled on. She sat, and she thought, and she did not tell her thoughts to anyone. On the first day of what would have been her second year of page training, she woke before the sun and had a quiet breakfast with her father, and then she jogged up the big dusty hill to the palace.

    When the pages trailed out to the practice yards with dubious enthusiasm, she was waiting just outside their ground. Her chin was high, her shoulders loose while her hands gripped her weighted staff.

    "Probationer," Wyldon barked out her, when one of the boys went to fetch him. "Was I unclear in the spring?"

    Kel stared him down, fingers white on her staff, and said, "I'm not a probationer anymore."

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    29 Apr 2025