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2024-10-29 19:42:56It was almost as if life had gone back to normal.
Darkness crept in that Sunday night and with it a mild chill as the moon dangled in the sky; a miscellany of milky white and pale blue, encompassed with silvery stars.Crickets carolled in their chappy voice seeking mates. Millipedes and centipedes built small holes that they snuck in to keep themselves warm and in the morning, when they were out to go about their business - which was primarily being a marvel to school kids, birds of the sky and fowls of the Earth had them for breakfast.
Rabbits hopped around with the bushy tails, feeding on Conifer needles, twigs, buds, wildflowers and greenplants whilst hoping and taking glances at the bright blue sky which was getting brighter as the sun emerged, that no hawk swooped down on them.
Even those living on No. 3, Atholl Esplanade weren't left out of the Sunday miracle which hopefully, will extend all through Monday and
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Eallric tried hard to hide his jittery hands and stammering lips and to keep his over-analyzing brain stable by the incredible piece of information he'd gotten.It was absolutely no mistake that the scientist - Yurio Reqapeu, had said what he did. At least, not to Eallric Hancey of the Police Department located in Mariners Spur, Ingfalls. It was a miracle!Eallric's brain swapped images in his heads rapidly like a pack of cards being shuffled - from young, naive soldiers as strong as three white stallions being injected with the Pathogen Enhancers, to the soldiers slumping and dying - perhaps coughing out blood and with an intense migraine - a few hours later, for the only reason that they love their country.“Isn't there any other way the government can tackle those - creatures and keep us safe without losing soldiers?”Yurio continued with his present task like he hadn't heard what he was told. He
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“What do you do?” Gerey asked Jeyrin, the four feet tall creature which was absurd and unearthly.He wished all of it was a dream, a trance, mere hallucination and he'll wake up soon to realize that they'd just been fantasies, but Jeyrin, with its large pale eyes like a child severly infected with apollo stood before Eallric, answering his questions, as real as life.“I help around.”“Do you know any spells? As in, magic?”“Uhm - no? Is that a problem?” It leaped off his bed onto the ground with much ease and expertise. Gerey leaned forward on his warm bed to see it.It was lithe, swift and lively.“Nah - I guess not. And how are you able to speak - English?”“I - don't know. I can just speak it. Let's call it my magic.” Jeyrin winked at Gerey with its yellow ey
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As Gerey dropped his leather bag on a shelf - the fifth row when counted from below, he noticed that his bag was opened wide and Jeyrin wasn't in it which came as a rude shock leading to the visibility of his green veins as his arms hardened.Jeyrin was somewhere in the library, of course. Gerey was very sure of that but couldn't say where he was exactly which was a huge bother and definitely not what he wanted.Jeyrin was no ordinary pet. No. He could walk on both legs and communicate verbally with humans and communicate his emotions undoubtedly, too. So far, on earth, it was its only kind of its specie - making its worth beyond price; a treasure, a gem and a breakthrough in nature. Definitely, Gerey couldn't lose it just like that.He turned back to look at the Librarian who was flipping through a book with crisp, dusty, yellow pages with a crammed expression on her face which gave her th
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