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Eleanor Konik
Dec 08, 2021
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Photo of cypress forest by Eoin Anderson on Unsplash

📗 Note: this takes place before Petrichor & Shattered. 

It cost Jiri six years and a toe to build a perfect model of Iyranlenil Forest. His mage-bolt turned it into slag, but the scrap of lizard-skin at the center stayed pristine.

"The strength of our magic is irrelevant," the old scholar pleaded with his king. "It won't die."

"We have to try."

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