Slave School: First Day, for lilfluff

lilifluff's response to my giraffe sale: more of the slave school!

The first two entries of the slave school are:
Frying Pan, Fire (LJ Link), from lilfluff's prompt regarding a slave school.
Final Exams (LJ Link), from wyld_dandelyon's prompt of the same name.

"Room 1, right there. Choose the seat with your name on it and sit down." The proctor reminded Debbie of the guards at their first prison, except that, instead of a uniform, he wore a shirt and tie. She had no doubt he could be just as rough, though, so she found the seat with her name on it - just Debbie, like everything else here, like she'd left her last name at home with her freedom. She wondered what they'd have done if they had more than one Debbie.
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Fiction for Rix! - Road Trip

This is a short story in response to rix_scaedu's commission in my Giraffe Sale: "What happens in Rozen's territory after he's packed off to Kailani?"

Addergoole/Fae Apoc. After Devil Deals (LJ Link) and Into the Woods (from Sugar Cat) and the subsequent events in Retirement and Retirement 2

He’d thought he’d have trouble moving among humans. He’d never had a particularly normal upbringing, after all, and then he’d spent decades in a sealed enclave of Ellehemaei society.

But humans, now, it seemed, were more interested in basic survival and less interested in shunning someone for odd behavior and, besides, for all he’d been cloistered away, he’d learned people. He could move from settlement to settlement, talking with his - Regine’s, really - contacts there, following the trail - without anyone suspecting he was anything more than a Mysterious (Human) Stranger, one of the Outriders who connected the sparse settlements. After all, that’s what he was.
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