Yesterday's handwritten story, typed out

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If it had been Tolly who showed up, Kai thought, she might have
stood a change. They had never been able to really get away from him,
of course; they'd been raising his son for nearly 12 years. But Conrad
had also never forgiven him.
Kai wasn't sure she had, either, but that burned quietly, in a place
she didn't look at often.
If it had been Tolly, or Mark, or one of the later members of the
cy'ree, she might have had a change of keeping Conrad with her. He had
never, after all, been the most noble, most white Knight of the
cy'Luca bunch, by his own admission.
But it was Vlad, greenest of the White Knights, and Finn and Smitty,
who showed up at their cozy cottage. When she saw the mer-man armed
for battle, great axe with a wooden-edged blade hanging over his
shoulder, she knew she'd lost him.
"They're destroying our world." Finn spoke over her shoulder to
Conrad. "We have to stop them."( Read more... )