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aldersprigChapter 4: Cynara
by Lyn Thorne-Alder
“Creepy.” Cynara stared at the barn, at the lift slowly lowering the Jeep, at the warehouse they were coming down into. “This is not exactly inspiring any confidence in this Adder’s Who—”
“Addergoole.” Luke Hunting-Hawk was not the most talkative of travel companions, and he clearly didn’t want to be out here hauling her in. He’d been wearing the same pissed-off since he showed up at the motel room door to collect her. “It’s the Addergoole School.”
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by Lyn Thorne-Alder
“Creepy.” Cynara stared at the barn, at the lift slowly lowering the Jeep, at the warehouse they were coming down into. “This is not exactly inspiring any confidence in this Adder’s Who—”
“Addergoole.” Luke Hunting-Hawk was not the most talkative of travel companions, and he clearly didn’t want to be out here hauling her in. He’d been wearing the same pissed-off since he showed up at the motel room door to collect her. “It’s the Addergoole School.”
read on…
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Date: 2017-03-16 09:51 pm (UTC)^ expression ?
• never let ‘em see you bleed
→ ’em
> Tricky, this. Apps that automatically produce curly quotes expect an apostrophe that follows a space and precedes a letter to mean an open-single-quote, so they give it a "6" single-quote. But when it is meant as an apostrophe, indicating letters dropped in the pronunciation, what you want there is a close-single-quote, a "9" quote. It gave you
‘em
where you want
’em
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Date: 2017-03-17 10:39 am (UTC)Like, I know that you’re right, it makes sense, I /hate/ the way it looks.
Just absolutely hate it.
Not that I won’t fix it, I just hate it.