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Settled beside the stream, Aria stared at the water for a moment before cupping her own hands and imitating him to take a drink, grimacing at the taste in her mouth even as it was washed away. Her body, as her green eyes idly followed the water’s current, seemed to shake less and less and even the t...

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Aria, as she watched the man float away on the current, wondered if this was what a nightmare was like. Her breath was caught, not even daring to breathe until hands touched at her sides. She flinched, trying to move away even as Alex tried to comfort her, her shock and fright not abating at the sig...

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Aria, with a few shakes of her canvas, had it spread out across the ground, retrieving an edge with a hand at both corners. It was then half-dragged across the clearing so that it was at the other end of the clearing where a thick branch stretched out just enough into the clearing. It was just as cr...

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The suggestion brought Aria to an abrupt halt, her expression belying that her thoughts had been elsewhere, staring down at her pro-offered pack for longer than it should have taken her to realise what he meant. A quick glance around them made her aware soon enough of what he meant; she had just bee...

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The removal of the pack caused Aria to half-stumble, unbalanced by the loss of weight. She only just managed to prevent herself falling completely, her now free hand bracing against the grassy slope. It was a little embarrassing but thankfully Aria was not so vain to be annoyed at looking ungraceful...

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“You’re welcome.” Aria turned to wash her own hands clean in the fast running water beside them, pleased. “And yes! It’s one of the few things I do well enough at besides sewing.” Cooking was something that the woman had ended up honing to an acceptable standard since living away from home, but a co...

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Often she travelled a little further up the road before stopping for her first break, at a point where the river and track evened out to a point where she could reach the water source without too much difficulty. Aria eyed the little slope warily; it was not far, not more than eight feet in height a...

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“Never been to Cassander?” Her surprise was genuine; everyone in the valley had visited the town at least once in their lifetime and all travellers had come from or were travelling towards the place. To find someone who had not ever been there... “It’s well worth seeing. The view of the sea is worth...

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There were few roads between Jerse Valley and Cassander; easily recognisable well-used dirt tracks that had been reinforced by cobblestone as one grew closer to the walls of the great city port. Aria was thankful that the turn of seasons had not brought the heavy rain with it yet, meaning that she w...

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This was all wrong! Aria tried her best not to look upset but she must have failed, watching her father’s gaze turn stern and unyielding. The message was quite clear, but experience and manners meant nothing when she felt this hurt. Her father’s easy acceptance of her travelling into the city made s...

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Her father had originally been against the idea of her going altogether and now, as she carefully wrapped her sewing implements in a chemise to protect them from anything else in her little pack, but he had changed his mind two days ago. “You can go to Cassander.” Aria looked across the table betwee...

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Aria had to focus but she was almost positive that she’d heard an apology there. Her surprise was reactionary and therefore impossible to hide. He was right in his assumptions; she did not believe for one moment that had been him acting out of the ordinary, for the awkward stable boy that had come t...

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He did not look pleased to see her. Actually, Aria thought with a watchful gaze on the stable boy, he did not look anything. That was progress in the right direction; maybe this would not be so troublesome after all. Maybe he had already lost interest, and this would be that final nail in the coffin...

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Walking up from the valley’s core settlement into the manor’s extensive and meticulously kept grounds was always something of a surreal experience for those fortunate enough to be invited up to Jerse Manor on a semi-regular basis. The well maintained fields were lined with bushes that were just begi...

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Another thing to add to the ever-growing list of things about her life that she had no clue about, Aria realised. Her father had never mentioned any relative named Margot, distant or otherwise, which led her to wonder how long David’s spirit had existed in the Dream Realm. How long had he ‘lived’ in...

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Some parts were not hard for Aria to absorb. How could she deny the existence of magic when she herself was capable of feats that she knew were beyond normal capabilities? He called the real world a ‘realm’ like it was an official title. Perhaps it was; it would only add to the absurdly long list of...

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And now she felt a greater fool, eyes snapping open to lock onto his as Aria felt her cheeks burn. That certainly felt real, she admitted to herself, gaping inelegantly. “Yes,” she squeaked out, wanting more than anything to look away from David, but unable to tear her gaze away. Aria wanted so badl...

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The world was vanishing into darkness and shadow, leaving Aria not only speechless as she helplessly let David pull her through the last disappearing remnants of the woods that she had believed to be real. Her world was crumbling down at all sides and apparently that was fine. The tightness with whi...

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It had not really been much of a concern for Aria, contented as she was, but at David’s words she reluctantly stopped her aimless walking and actually looked at her surroundings. Nothing had changed from earlier on; she still had no idea where they had walked themselves to. “Neither do I.” And that ...

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Her reaction to that was one of those winning, earnest expressions of delight that Alex was trying to extract from her by force, reaching all the way to her eyes. “I hoped you’d say that,” Aria confessed, sounded shy in her tone but not turning away. “Thank you David, and don’t you tell me not to bo...

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