Alder's Grove

Otherwise known as: I had to make 444 words on #4thewords to keep up my streak, and I didn't want to write anything else...

First to @dahob's prompt here and second to Rix's prompt here

On some level, it was a fascinating study in closed genetic populations. This little island had been cut off from everything else since the End Wars. The bridges had been blown, the waters had become impassible, and a series of bad explosions of magic meant that most people didn’t even remember that it existed.

If a Finder hadn’t targeted it as holding useful resources, it might have gone another seventy-five years before anyone noticed it was there.

As it was, the island had a small population that seemed entirely to consist of rabbit-Change fae. They were very rabbity, more so than any other rabbit-Changes the team had ever seen. And they were very definitely at war.
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This is a drabble of Kailani and Conrad, from Addergoole: TOS, during the time of Chapter one of Addergoole: Year 9


August 31, 2003

"Does it seem like..." Kailani paused to grab Alistair and pull his shirt back over his head. "...like we should be listening to Regine's speech again?"

Conrad, who had his hands full trying to get Audra's socks on, just laughed. "It's not like we weren't here last year, too."

"Last year, we hardly had time to think, and we were still fresh from school. This year..." She successfully got Alistair dressed. "No, Ali, keep it on. Crissy will be here any minute."

You could, she had learned, demand things of Regine. An au pair had been her first "request."