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Maria Poppy

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Grimoire Mishaps at the Library of Baba Yaga

Shortlisted for Weekly Contest #338 ⭐️

Rule #438 of the Library of Baba Yaga: Damaged books will be fined Hecate, grant me peace. Aradia clasped her pendant, running her thumb over the serpent’s ridges, as she gingerly opened the volume in front of her, a copy of “A Lady’s Guide to Cyanide.” She quickly flipped through the bloodied pages, assessing the damage. It seemed the lady had decided to forgo cyanide. This amount of blood could only spill from a sizable wound. Really, it was none of her business what people did with the books, but she drew the line at returning them in les...

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