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Parenting sometimes stinks.
Parenting sometimes stinks
Cellar Martias glanced toward the door engine room.
They just opened, letting in a young woman... though, not as young, as it seems.
In truth, she physically looked no more than thirty years, but he recently learned, that soon she will be have 483 years.
Until recently, he saw only a few Nu`Ada in his life, and although each of them looked to be about thirty years, it always turned out, that they had lived a few good centuries. Their life cycle was similar to a human or Lanteans... but only to a point. Then, their biological clock, stopped almost in place. The oldest of them had almost a thousand years - the Firs
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Chapter 3 – Evirare
"Yiyuan?" The curiosity was eating me.
'What does it mean?' I wondered. I really wanted to find out its meaning.
"It's very rare name. I've met only one person with this name. His looks were rare too. His eyes were deep red in colour and his hair had colour of the purest clouds. He couldn't talk, but his actions were speaking loudly for him. Many feared him because of his appearance, yet Yiyuan was one of the kindest people I've ever known."
"What does it mean?" I put the cup away, the tea was already drunk.
"'Final wish', but in ancient language it's 'the guard of lost souls'. There aren't many who know about t
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The room was dark and dank. A single cell in the center of the room with the Atlantean force field separating me from the outside. I had been in one of these cells before. Once, but it had happened. The Atlanteans had thought it would be a good idea to study one of my kind to see what made us tick. Oh, those were the days. A young queen being scrutinized by her food.
It was the most disgracing thing that I had ever been through. I was a queen. Yes, still very young at that time, but still a queen. I had been awake for quite some time just standing in the middle of the cell knowing not to touch the sides. Just waiting for something to happen.