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  1. The Bookwyrm
    After a few more minutes resting, Bookwyrm pulled himself out of bed. Astyl, who was characteristically concerned about him, had released himself from his soulmerge in order to watch over his human. Bookwyrm dressed in a simple blue tunic, rather than the more fortified one he used for questing, and left his weapons unsummoned. Then, with Astyl and Windaphra by his side, and Perideria in his mind, he stepped out of his room and into the hallway. He eventually passed the recruitment forms that Fadran put up. They need people to research a form of magic in an isolated world...without revealing anything about the wider expanse of Existence..or the "Macrosmos," as they call it here. I should be able to do that...right? I think you'll be okay, Astyl said to him mentally. I don't know why you're doubting yourself. You're incredibly skilled. Yeah, but most of my powers come from other worlds. You can be discrete, can't you? Bookwyrm sighed. I suppose. He wrote his name under the paper, but resolved to leave a little later. He wanted to see how everyone else in the Inn was doing. @Channelknight Fadran
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    "No," Bookwyrm said. "Not on my own. Not...not when...I'm me...." Inside, doubt and shame began to grow inside Bookwyrm.
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    "All right." Avi took the pelts and, after some work with her dagger and a simple spell, had three pieces of the silvery fur-covered skins to wear as cloaks. She drew a simple rune over each one, gave them a time limit of three days, for redundancy, and activated them. The pelts shimmered, their magic activating. Avi picked one up and wrapped it around her shoulders, turning invisible. She handed the other two to Il'anque and Isek. "Time to start climbing." @Frustration
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    Bookwyrm snapped awake in his bed. Wait....what? He turned to Windaphra. "How'd I get here?" "I'm not sure, myself," she said, looking confused. "You teleported...but how is what I'm confused about." Bookwyrm looked around. "Where's Marilyn?"
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    Bookwyrm blinked. What...what did I do?
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    "I'm fairly certain you know exactly why that is, Subversion. You know who you are and what you've done."
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    I figured it out really early on...like, I think suspected it in the first scene we saw Huck. I knew a talking rat did not make sense with the Cosmere mechanics that we understood, "familiars" being a thing or not. And as soon as it mentioned Huck going on and on about seemingly irrelevant things, I immediately latched onto that similarity. Everything Huck ever said about a curse, I read it like Huck talking about himself being cursed. And it made sense. I actually came up with the explanation for the name "Huck" somewhere in the middle, connecting it to "Chuck", which is a nickname for Charlie. All the clues seemed to fit, and I was right.
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    "Hello," Bookwyrm replied. No use using narration against a narrator. Scudding annoying...
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    Bookwyrm summoned his Narrationblade and Narrated the tapestry to wrap around Subversion, restraining her.
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    "Can do," Bookwyrm replied. He wasn't about to break the rules in someone else's house, Narrator or not. He stepped inside, walking slowly as he took in the entrance hall. Then he followed Thaidakar up the stairs. What does it mean that he's back? What would @Sequence think? What would Nameless- Oh. Bookwyrm followed silently. He didn't know how much Thaidakar knew about what he had missed, and wasn't sure if he was the one who should be telling him.
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    "Is it okay if I check it out?" Bookwyrm asked.
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    I once had a really cool Mistborn cake that my grandma made me. I might be able to find a picture of it somewhere... It was for my twelfth or thirteenth birthday, instead of my sixteenth. Which would have been more thematically appropriate.
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    "I was unaware he was versed in illusions. I was also unaware that you had a mansion."
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    I have not. I've eaten carmel, but not camel. I've had alligator, though. And chicken heart. NHIE eaten snails. Even though I want to now.
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    Bookwyrm tried to stand up, but the sudden strain of his emergency teleportation had sucked far, far more energy out of him than it should have. He groaned, then fell unconscious and collapsed to the floor of the main entrance hall. @InfiniteInsanity
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    "Oh. Time travel. I forgot." Bookwyrm followed Thaidakar to the mansionless puppy park. "Hm. Maybe it's buried? Or invisible?"
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    We seem to have two prompts for day seven. When you combine them, a vivid image comes to mind.... Write a story based on both these prompts.
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    Bookwyrm appeared in front of Thaidakar. "Back again? Already?"
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    It was over. They had Tacien back. But one of their own was left behind. Bookwyrm stood in the snow blasted wasteland, searching. A ring of blue fire carefully hovered in the air above him, thawing the land, melting the snow, and keeping him warm. "Do you see her yet?" Bookwyrm yelled over the howling wind. "No," Windaphra replied. "I'll keep looking." Bookwyrm sighed and shoved down his doubt. He barely knew Marilyn, but wasn't about to leave her to die. Not like I had much else to do. They seemed to manage without me... Suddenly the call came over the wind to Bookwyrm's mind. "Here! I found her!" Bookwyrm ran as fast as he could, snow melting, then steaming, as they came under his fire's warmth. As he neared where Windaphra hovered, the snow melted to reveal an unconscious, frozen body. She looked unfamiliar, feature-wise. But it had to Marilyn. Bookwyrm picked her up, hoping the fire would start to counteract some of the effects of the cold. Worlds, if she has frostbite... "Let's find the return portal!" Windaphra said. "No time! Any longer here and we risk killing us both. I can make it." "Are you sure?" "Yes." Bookwyrm reached out with his mind. Universes revealed themselves to him, but they were completely unfamiliar. He wouldn't be able to travel to any of them. He scoured them desperately, looking... There! A familiar world, twinkling like a star in the darkness. Bookwyrm seized it with his mind. Reality shifted, and he fell to the floor of the entrance hall of the Mishmash Inn with the unconscious Marilyn. @InfiniteInsanity
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    Bookwyrm stepped through the portal. Nearly left us behind, Perideria said. Rude. I think that's our fault, mostly, Bookwyrm replied. The chill wind grasped at him immediately. He wrapped his cloak around himself and it began warming him with it's magic. He pulled the hood over his head and walked over to the rest of the group.
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    How should I know?
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    You're fine! I might have forgotten if you didn't Time for my first prompt response...and I was the one who started this thread! Jan-6-2023: (An Approaching Storm) Harbored Horrors Sweet and simple. I didn't put too much thought into this, but it's a scenario that would take place in my connected universe.
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