Everwinter Ch38: Weaver of Lies

Pushed and prodded like a puppet..._ the flux in the air burned, it radiated from the vortex like tiny daggers digging through my body. it forced the thoughts from my mind as i felt my heart tighten. there was no time for self-pity.

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Chosen: Chapter Seven

"to make me a puppet again!" "no, tayna!" lillian jumped to her paws and her daughter leapt backwards, cat-leaping around the fire as her mother dashed to grab her.

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This-solving...

Strings from puppets dance empty as dummies take seats to watch who's pulling old emotion forgetting the performance for the first time, they watch blindly with infatuated devotion chaos felt in a light breeze around the room all watch curtains falling

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Flash Fiction

As they contracted, his arms raised in jerky movements like a puppet with a broken string. raised in a graceless line towards me. towards my head. ii braced for the impact, the burst of pain that would leave me blissfully unconscious.

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Samantha's Third Chance Chapter 3

I'm not your puppet anymore. no siana, never again. leave amura alone." "that must be some nightmare." jackie thinks. jackie then strokes samantha's human face. jackie soon finds herself held like a teddy bear by samantha.

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Glossary/Author's Note

**mare** - adult female horse or kentaur **necromancer** - a practitioner of the forbidden dark arts who can raise the dead back to life, often using them as puppets or slaves.

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Vicious Betrayal

"where's the puppet master?" it wasn't long before the last soldier fell and a slow clap emerged, "come out. now." a man in a black cloak walked casually over the bodies as though they were dirt, "my thanks, commander dante.

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ANLNB ...Where Are We?

Finally was her, the woman behind it all, the shadow puppet to the puppeteer that claimed to be her friend and confidant, and she was looking at a screen with us on it when another came into the room to take her away.

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Raspberry Line Chapter 20

It didn't involve noise; it didn't involve motion; it didn't involve the dark shadows or the flickering lights or the violin or the temblor of giants' footsteps; the blood, the symbols, the latin and the puppets. this fear was quiet. it was subtle.

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The Sorrows of the Church

You and your clergy treat us like dirt yet you claim to be just and morally upright followers of arkhos' ways you are nothing but the hidden hands of twisted puppets amongst us..."

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Surface (Chapter 8)

Klein's forearm dangled sideways under his elbow at shoulder level like a puppet's arm, as if daring anyone else to compel some invisible master to pull his strings and make him dance for the crowd's amusement again, trying to conceal how spent he really was

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The Rule of Four (Defunct)

And then he found his body a puppet to his hormones, rather than his fears; it hugged his friend tight and spoke the question he'd wanted to ask, but was too afraid to say on his own: "want to be my date for the prom, raz?"

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