Shamble_Slowly



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    “How precious are your futures?” asks the Sphinx. “How dear to you is the path you wish to take?” She bares her teeth in a cruel smile, and they all take an involuntary step back.

    “Wait,” says Laios suddenly. “Look at her teeth!”

    Yes, Laios,” says Izutsumi. “We’ve all noticed the fangs. This really isn’t the time—”

    “No,” says Laios, “those back teeth. She has molars- grinders. That means she’s an omnivore. But she can’t leave this circle, and you saw how nothing ventures within miles of this spot. I bet she hasn’t had anything other than…” he swallows, waving a hand vaguely at the pile of ex-adventurers, “...meat… for years .”

    “So…what?” asks Izutsumi.

    “Remember how good those marshmallows were?” asks Laios. “And that was only after a couple days without much of a varied diet.”

    “You want to bet all of our lives,” Chilchuck says slowly, “on making a Sphinx a nice dessert?”

    Laios smiles.

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    No matter how much power and strength you have, you can still find yourself completely helpless before something perplexing and fragile. Not knowing what to do with a panic attack, or what causes it, or how to make someone stop being afraid and build trust. Weapons, money, connections, superhuman abilities – everything accumulated over the years may suddenly turn out to be useless. But that's when you'll have a chance to find out who you are beyond them.

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    Father Jud shows up at Benoit Blanc's doorstep, suspected of murder once again.

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    She has no throne. Girls without thrones should not have knights, but hers won’t go. Princess Zelda – the girl who killed Calamity – would love to fade into legend, but Link’s bought a house, he’s fighting off monsters, and he’s selling giant horses to strangely familiar Gerudo men. She'll never have any peace now.

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    On the third morning, he had noticed that two of his better pens had been stolen, and that his paperclips had all been mangled - left strewn messily, and at random, across his work surface - but had not commented. Simply removed, and replaced them.

    Reno, sporting two new pens on his own desk, and a glare that could wilt plant life, had not seemed too impressed at the time. Perhaps, he had hoped to elicit a reaction.

    Rude, if nothing else, was an expert at poker faces.

    He most definitely doesn’t wait for Reno to go and make himself a coffee in the kitchen down the hall - a task which Rude is already a hundred percent aware takes a solid ten to fifteen minutes, because Reno likes to dawdle - and certainly doesn’t use that time to knock one of the rubber feet from the bottom of one of Reno’s chair legs - leaving the furnishing permanently wonky on one side… and most definitely does not change his computer settings so that the ‘@’ key on his keyboard delivers a comma instead.

    That would be childish.

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