Monissa Whiteley

Gone the big elephant now. (Link below.)

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I just like this photo. I have it on my (laptop's) desktop.

[Monissa Whiteley @monissa]

Becket ordered wine from a man who came to the table to ask, very respectively, if they wanted anything. Then they sat and drank expensive wine, while I finished off cold milk.
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Coins are just something we assign a value to. They're not necessary. If a chicken is worth three drans and an amphora of wine is ten, you just swap three chickens for one amphora.
It was just an example. I am sure your wine costs many more chickens.

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Obtaining the wine, that was easy. The pages of the Book of Laws pertaining to the feeding of kings say a barrel of wine has to be used the day it is opened. They might claim it's to prevent poisoning, but I suspect the influence of an opportunistic vintner.

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Well this will be my last #1linewed because Tweetdeck has gone to premium/subscription only, and it was the only thing that made Twitter tolerable.

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@ericlahti1 😆

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No souvenir shops, replaced here by kitchenware and book shops. A shopping hall for Luna residents.
From the years above the doors, it might even have been the original shopping hall. These little shops took pride in having been established forty or fifty years ago.
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He's taller than his fellow nobles, and lighter of skin, from his mother, a foreign princess. Ever noticed how those high-born nobles who think to know what's best for us all bleed foreign blood?

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"Like people," I say, and watch Dom as I speak. But he just nods. He's already come to this conclusion. Then I notice he is taking a strong interest in the army recruits.
"Soldiers?" I ask. "Why would anyone smuggle in soldiers?"

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@NateCrowder Which server?

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@LidsRodney OK

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@LidsRodney You obviously don't live in Australia. Everything is out to kill you. :|

Are they confusing the sprouts with the green patches?

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"Ten pence and a signature, and he's all yours."
"Mine? I can buy him?" Dan asked. "But he's worth more than ten pennies."
"You can argue the matter with McDowell. I'm sure he'll be happy to raise the price."
Dan made a careful X in the place the sergeant indicated.
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I shake the cup and throw out the dice. A six falls out. A second six. And then a third.
Mohindra snorts. "We might as well all go home now."
"Rek doesn't just flirt with luck," Vachir says. "This day he takes it to a dark corner and makes it his lover."
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"Art Designs" the first sign said, in letters entwined with painted leaves. The place to get help with our cabin's decor.
Next door, sedate black lettering invited me in for advice on my holiday finances.
Next to that, glowing letters offered me "DNA Fortune Telling".
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@MagicalHippo Thanks!

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Mael's brother & king is acting odd. Magical influence or family malady? Doesn't matter. If his advisor's find out, he'll be put to death. But Mael's a swordsman. He can't deal with issues of mind & magic. Yet if he doesn't, his beloved brother will die
#Queerpit #ACE #ND #MH #EF

[CoffeeQuills ~ Editing Knitting Necromancers! 💀🧶 @coffeequills]

Post-apocalyptia is full of assholes, living & dead, & all Tal wants is to live alone. Instead, he gets companions who "help" (much pain, very ow)

Which means choosing between his life & their lives should be an easy decision, right?

#QueerPit #A #SN #SPF #PostApoc

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@JosephA27320313 That is different

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I hesitate, silhouetted in the doorway. Suddenly unsure if I should enter.
"Thought you might have finally got yourself killed," someone shouts. A few awkward laughs follow. Then comes the familiar noises of dice rolling and chatter.

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"Look!" shouted a man, standing closer to the road than I could get.
I did look, and you know what I saw? Feathers. Tall, white feathers coming down the road and following behind, what looked like the top of a carriage. I'm sure it doesn't get more exciting than that.
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