Lord Turtle the First

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"Then, a few months later, after many more nights of shared silence and occasional, surprisingly profound conversations, he asked me to marry him," Lina said, her voice pulling them both gently, ir...

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He swallowed, the lump in his throat sharp, painful. "Doesn’t mean it hurts any less, Mom," he said, his voice thick with unshed tears he could no longer physically cry.

She nodded slowly, ...

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Ray groaned, his body shaking, as he tried to piece together more of the broken, chaotic memories of Rex. “I’am… never… doing this… again,” Ray whispered, his voice a ragged, b...

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Later that day, after a quiet, blessedly normal meal with his mother—during which he recounted a heavily edited, significantly less gruesome version of his junkyard adventure at the municipal lan...

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Despite himself, despite the stench and the sheer, overwhelming wrongness of it all, Ray cracked a smirk. For all his certifiable insanity, Arty had a strange, undeniable way of making even the gri...

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Johnny was there in an instant, charging, his shotgun lowered, ready for the kill shot. Ray rolled desperately behind another pillar. He knew what Johnny was doing—he was trying to force him into...

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“Good choice,” Johnny said, a hint of approval in his tone. “She’s a professional. Cold as ice when she needs to be, but fair. And she definitely knows her shit.” Johnny stood then, his m...

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Ray charged forward. He slid in beside Johnny, his pistols firing in perfect, deadly sync with Johnny’s own assault rifle. Together, they cut down the remaining, terrified Red Obsidian guards in ...

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Ray stepped forward, into the center of the room, his spine straight, his gaze unwavering. “Sorry I didn’t tell you earlier, Johnny,” he said, his tone firm but not confrontational, addressin...

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Ray stepped closer, a sense of unease prickling at the back of his neck.

 “What is it? Where did you get this?” Julia asked, her voice suddenly taut, strained.

“Someone I met...

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Tiana

Selene