“One pet for forty liters, huh? Where’s the rest go?”“Well, some of them gets melted into cup size, some of them goes to the stomach, and of course you gotta strain out the indigestibles. I gotta hedge in case someone brings in one that’s light, too.”Two strangers stand in a booth at a farmer’s market. One of them, a wolf, has a rumbly voice. He’s putting on a cold affect. “And you have to keep some to sell.”“You don’t say!

Atys the Great wakes up. Her magic and body are restored, except for a strong hangover.More importantly, though, she’s hungry. If the world were just (oh! if only) then there would be a servant there, ready to feed themself to her, thanking her for the privilege of becoming part of the greatest mage in the land. As things are, none yet recognize her greatness. She is in a mediocre inn, having earned room and board by clearing out an infestation of dire serpents, and then gotten blackout dr

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Welded SoulsRhea paced back and forth across the living room in her quarters, sorely tempted to tear her hair out. There were just so many incidents happening, one after another. Her sisters were openly getting into destructive, public fights with each other… well, realistically, it was more Phoebe picking fights with everyone. Still, the point was, all of them were being frustrating in one way or another. Just to compound things even further, ever since that portal opened up to Allara on