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A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH3He looked at her the same way that the rest of them had. Trying not to screw up her face and say something privately unpleasant, Eleuin let her eyes drift about. She could not quite explain why this young person had given her the faint glimmer of hope he had. Possibly it was that he was even dirtier than the people she saw day to day.

Or it was because he was such a vivid piece of the world outside the window. It was not likely that he was the brown-cloaked man she had seen that afternoon, but she had been told that beggars all wore one like it. Eleuin tended to remember what she was told.

They sat there in uncomfortable silence for wh

A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH2When an insect sees a weaker insect, all it sees is another bug. When a cousin sees a cousin of lower caste, he may call him 'lesser', but he loves him as his own.

Gremlin sat on the edge of a box and counted his take for the day. It was slim pickings by the docks, but he got less kicks than when he braved the merchant's run. There was enough for bread at least.

Kicking up dirt and grinning, he made a beeline for the bakery, a good indoor shop that he was only allowed into if he wiped his feet before entering. To be sure, he had to dodge the odd swing from a patron who disliked the lack of humble hunch in his youthful shoulders, but tha

A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH1There was safety in numbers. This was an axiom with which Eleuin was well-acquainted. She understood it in at least two different contexts, but it did not seem the same in this place.

She leaned on the windowsill, pretending that it was open. The glass was cool against her fingers, but too cold for her face. She pressed the tip of her little nose against it anyway, eyes skyward, as they always were. Beyond the streaks of grease and salt air on the other side of the window, she could see the stars, blinking like electric lights.

Behind her, something broke and someone cursed. Curious as to its meaning, she murmured it to herself, tryin

The Writing on the Wall CH16"This doesn't make any sense!"

Noni's chair screeched loudly as she pushed it away from her desk. A cluster of scientists consulting Asclepia of some matter or other looked up disapprovingly at her, but she paid them no mind as she stomped over to my work station.

She held out a little potted plant and handed it to me. The leaves were brown and wilting, hopelessly close to death, or more likely a year or more beyond it. It had possibly been a flower once, or meant to be one, but the brown and grey clump that hung down from the top of the dry brown stem might have easily been a deformed aboveground potato as a blossom. I would have belie

The Writing on the Wall CH15It was odd, after so much running about, to have not only the chance to sit down and rest, but for it to be all but required of me. In the end, I stopped thinking about it entirely. There was so much to learn.

One thing that I had to learn had nothing to do with the Hollow Man at all. The laboratory was like another world all on its own. It had been perhaps an hour before I stopped slipping up and calling Asclepia 'Dr Cordet'. Everyone else who passed addressed her by her given name. If I had been a mere observer, a guest of some kind, I wouldn't have known she was in charge of anything in that big white room.

Demetrius and Noni kept

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Everyone I've met outside the REC who's worked there thinks Ryan is awesome. Tour 1 just has all the best supervisors.

And that is why I never wanted to change my hours.

First airbrushed one, and probably only took about ten minutes. Deceiving me into thinking I'm actually fast.

~Mayaj Jun 15, 2009

ooh Sexeh...!

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~Kid-Apocalypse Jun 15, 2009

I WISH I COULD TELL HIM SOMEONE SAID THAT.

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~Mayaj Jun 15, 2009

You should!

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~Kid-Apocalypse Jun 15, 2009

Might be too questionable. XD

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~Mayaj Jun 15, 2009

aww,

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