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Submitted to Contest #59
For seven days, the pounding against the shield doors made it hard to even think. Five times we exchanged the bright, blue-white light of the Cave's grid-powered lights for the sickly yellow of the emergency lights when exposed substations were hit or enough water got into the Cave's ventilation systems to trip the emergency shut-offs. Most of the time, I didn't even have the yellow lights; I sat in the darkness of my closet of an apartment. When I could think, it was about how small my bank account was and how soon the rent was coming due...
Submitted to Contest #55
Deep in the bowels of the mountain that housed the Order of the Sacred Blade, Prospector Dmitri stared at the surface of the obsidian anvil, its top polished to a black mirror. On the walls of the sanctum hung tools, some perfectly functional blacksmith’s gear, others, like the obsidian anvil, for the forging of far less material works. All had the patina of generations of use. He had been scrying, and now meditated on the fuzzy images revealed in the depths of the anvil. The simple circle he had cast about the scrying anvil suddenly flared,...
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