The Lead Crown: Cruff's Dream

It's blinding, yet not bright enough. It's hard to describe this strange warmth it brings. But it's also cool... just right. I don't know where I am, but it feels familiar somehow. It's comfortable. Not the type of comfortable one would feel by lying...

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A Lead Crown Contribution: Regrets

_ **The Lead Crown Contribution: Regrets** _ I laid restless in an unfamiliar room, alone, my mind constantly replaying the events that led me here, every single memory since that grim day when the Albatross blew up and we got involved in this...

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Sanmer Lemarre - Escape from Graddin

"Damn it," the arctic fox hissed as he carefully peeked down the hallway. Guards everywhere. This was supposed to be a simple job. Get in, get the goods, and get out. But, no, he had to have a rare moment of klutziness, stumble over a switch on the...

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The Crown: Chapter Ten

#11 of the crown author's note: wow, what a long wait! after years of letting this project fall to the back burner, ignoring it and figuring it'd never get finished, i decided to try to finish it. it's high time i learn to finish what i start.

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Just Stories

Tobias sat at his mother's knee with wide eyes as she told him tales about ages long past, days when spirits both good and evil roamed the earth. To him, they were just stories, but they were entrancing and enrapturing, and he held onto each word with...

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Alantris, Chapter 4

the crown rolled into a shadow in the darkness, and howl went to pick it up. he reached for the cold metal, and when he touched it, a shock went up his arm and up to his head.

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A Lead Crown Contribution: Changes and Memories

**The lead Crown Contribution: Changes and Memories** I was standing at the entrance of the University of Progressive Understanding, the incredibly elaborated doors in front of me were as regal and imposing as the building itself, guarding tirelessly...

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A Mother's Prayer

A Lead Crown Contribution: A Mother's Prayer The sun was already giving its last rays of light for the day by the time I got home, it was a strange feeling going back to an empty house after work, especially after all those years I had lived with my...

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Broken Crown

The old man took one piece of the crown and held it in his hand in front of him. following his example others took the pieces and held them in outstretched hands. working together, matching the pieces together to make the crown whole again.

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Lead Crown Contribution: Wiesen/Kesst

It was still a strange feeling for the millennia old dragon as his True Breath slowly left the body of his last 'child' to reunite with the essence he bestowed in his newest. Wiesen always thought he felt how the clockwork mechanisms within it stopped...

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A Lead Crown Contribution for KateTheMarten

**A LEAD CROWN CONTRIBUTION FOR KATE THE MARTEN** _Listen_ _well little Toby, this tale has been passed down by The People since times long forgotten, listen to the story of A-River-Between, the first of his Kind, the first to hear Their Voice, and...

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The Art of Caring for Horns

Tobias and his father walked down that old, familiar, well-worn path through the woods that they walked every so often. His father insisted that they do this even if the time was spent lecturing Tobias on his shortcomings, or, as his father put it,...

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