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Thread: the black dog
Post: RE: the black dog
| {{"Having fears is not the same as living in fear,"}} Drusilla returns after a beat, her voice echoing faintly down the stone walls. {{"Have you never feared anything?"}} she asks with genuine curiosi... |
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Rionna
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05-11-2024, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: the black dog
Post: RE: the black dog
| There's a different sort of tension between them tonight, and Drusilla is acutely aware that she's the one perpetuating it, just as she's aware that prying eyes could pass them by at any moment. She i... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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05-01-2024, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: the black dog
Post: RE: the black dog
| As though she's breathed life itself into the fantasies that play out in her mind on repeat, he appears before her between one moment and the next, the soft tenor of his question more of a jab than he... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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87 |
04-26-2024, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: the black dog
Post: the black dog
| The hours had slipped away from her, working by candlelight in the castle archives. She didn't realize how late the hour had gotten until the flame had sputtered out, burned down to the wick and casti... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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87 |
04-25-2024, 06:04 PM |
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Thread: Do Not Disturb
Post: RE: Do Not Disturb
| Drusilla does not come to Yorkshire particularly often, but there are times when her job requires her to travel—namely, in the spring, when the prior year's records need to be transcribed and added to... |
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Drusilla |
Yorkshire
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31 |
04-21-2024, 11:06 PM |
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Thread: my feet knew the path
Post: RE: my feet knew the path
| "Wow—" her head snaps up, feet stopping dead in her tracks. Drusilla is ordinarily more aware of her surroundings, but she'd been entirely too caught up in the dismal state of the place she'd loved so... |
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Drusilla |
Ruins of the Arboretum
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03-18-2024, 08:13 PM |
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Thread: the crooked are smiling
Post: the crooked are smiling
| Drusilla should be...anywhere else. She should not be on the black sands of Sussex's beach where she'd first met Amoux, and she definitely should not be hiding in the bushes beneath an outcropping, st... |
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Drusilla |
Drunken Seagull
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03-13-2024, 11:15 PM |
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Thread: my feet knew the path
Post: my feet knew the path
| Drusilla is ashamed to admit, even to herself, that she has thought little of the college in recent months. Granted, she's had bigger concerns to worry herself with, but these halls had been a home to... |
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Drusilla |
Ruins of the Arboretum
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03-12-2024, 02:15 PM |
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Thread: a side of me you didn't see
Post: RE: a side of me you didn't see
| Drusilla growls softly, as if in protest—she does deserve it, thank you very much. It's addictive, this pull she has to him; she has eyes for no one other than Amoux, and if he leaves her wanting, ach... |
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Drusilla |
Naiad's Lagoon
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02-29-2024, 04:56 PM |
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Thread: a side of me you didn't see
Post: RE: a side of me you didn't see
| RATED M FOR SEXUAL THEMES
"You're playing a dangerous game." Drusilla smiles slightly against the curve of his shoulder—knowingly. She loves this game, and all that it entails, and his warning does... |
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Drusilla |
Naiad's Lagoon
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02-29-2024, 02:00 PM |
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Thread: a side of me you didn't see
Post: RE: a side of me you didn't see
| He comes to her like a man overboard drawn in by a siren song, and fates, that hungry look in his eyes is enough to have her nearly keening for him all over again—she wants nothing more than to entang... |
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Drusilla |
Naiad's Lagoon
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02-27-2024, 07:35 PM |
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Thread: a side of me you didn't see
Post: RE: a side of me you didn't see
| It's difficult, now, for Drusilla to placate herself with the monotony of day-to-day life. She wouldn't go so far as to say she had ever found happiness with her station, but she had been content enou... |
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Drusilla |
Naiad's Lagoon
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191 |
02-21-2024, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: dirty dancing
Post: RE: dirty dancing
| She should have run. That first night on the beach—she should have run and never looked back. It's far too late for her now, for both of them; whatever forces have dragged them together have them in a... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-16-2024, 12:23 PM |
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Thread: dirty dancing
Post: RE: dirty dancing
| There's a truth in his words, she's well aware of it. Drusilla has stumbled headfirst into his world, but she isn't scared of it, she is fascinated—fixated very much in a similar manner to how she had... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-16-2024, 10:14 AM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: RE: when the wolf comes home
| "As you wish." There's something powerful in that statement—both that he will stay his hand at her request, and that she has the control to flip the switch, anytime she wants. It's not power over Amou... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-16-2024, 12:47 AM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| Drusilla can do little more than stare, dumbstruck. Until now, Amoux has not been particularly forthcoming—but then again, neither has she—and she is sequestered into silence by his thorough, albeit c... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-16-2024, 12:33 AM |
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Thread: dirty dancing
Post: RE: dirty dancing
| rated M for some slightly creepy eyeball stuff
”Words are meaningless.” In any other situation, she might have pointed out what an ironic thing that is to say to a linguist. She might have reminded... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-07-2024, 08:44 PM |
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Thread: dirty dancing
Post: RE: dirty dancing
| Drusilla would have gladly never set paw in Sussex again—except for one thing. Amoux. It's stupid, the way he always hovers in the back of her mind now, like some dirty secret she can't let go of. Whe... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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02-06-2024, 08:45 PM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: RE: when the wolf comes home
| The fine purse of Drusilla's lips is answer enough—Amoux is right to assume her father will make no retaliation. If anything, he will blame her for her foolishness, for drawing attention to herself, f... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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01-26-2024, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: RE: when the wolf comes home
| This is so much more than she bargained for, and Drusilla's thoughts run rampant, disjointed and disorganized. She's been at the hand of mercy before—too many times to count, but she refuses to let th... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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01-26-2024, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: RE: when the wolf comes home
| {{"Parts of you,"}} she murmurs with a half shrug, wincing when the movement elicits a sharp ache in her shoulder. She knows him to be an enigma, a man of power—and wealth, she suspects, considering h... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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395 |
01-25-2024, 03:00 PM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: RE: when the wolf comes home
| Her head is throbbing.
It's the first sense of awareness she has, however many hours later. Days? There is no sense of time in the void that had held her captive, no doubt aided along by some medic... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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395 |
01-01-2024, 10:46 PM |
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Thread: when the wolf comes home
Post: when the wolf comes home
| Drusilla hadn't known it at the time, but she was never meant to survive translating that book. Wouldn't it be convenient, to pull her from another city—by the time anyone noticed her lack of return, ... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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12-23-2023, 05:48 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| Drusilla is rather certain she's bored him—he doesn't say anything through all her rambling, and she's entirely too focused on her explanation of the language to notice the changes on his face, the fo... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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12-15-2023, 01:49 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| "For whom?" His interruption is met with a frustrated huff of air from her nostrils, though she does manage to refrain from rolling her eyes. Drusilla isn't so certain that she's a fan of this overbea... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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12-06-2023, 04:04 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| Good thing I haven't tried to tell you what to do, then. She keeps the thought to herself, but it's right there, hanging on the tip of her tongue. Drusilla thinks pushing him may very well be playing ... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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11-30-2023, 06:00 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| Drusilla does not appreciate the feeling that she is being chastised, but she doesn't waver beneath his comment; she is half-prepared with a scathing retort when he leans in, his chin tickling the top... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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11-30-2023, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: RE: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| Drusilla ignores the eyes prickling into the back of her neck, though she probably shouldn't; she's too confident to consider being jumped in a public space, and she isn't entirely without the ability... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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11-29-2023, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: putting all your thoughts back together
Post: RE: putting all your thoughts back together
| {{"I spent two years earning my professorship in Melrose,"}} she muses softly, drumming her nails against the wooden surface of the table, {{"but I don't think it's a subject that one ever stops learn... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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11-24-2023, 09:36 PM |
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Thread: putting all your thoughts back together
Post: RE: putting all your thoughts back together
| Her smile widens slightly, and Drusilla offers a subtle shake of her head and a shrug of her shoulders. {{"Only if you're paying attention,"}} she admits, a faint glitter flaring in her eyes. She find... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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11-24-2023, 07:01 PM |
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Thread: putting all your thoughts back together
Post: RE: putting all your thoughts back together
| Minute by minute, the tension ebbs away from her features; each sip of tea is a balm to her soul, and it calms the torrent of her thoughts about the last few days. Drusilla knows that the moment she s... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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11-20-2023, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
Post: burn your bridges and leave no witnesses
| It's always been easy to ignore the unrest in her word; Drusilla had been sheltered from it as a girl, and the college encouraged neutrality. Political disagreements had no place in the house of learn... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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659 |
11-16-2023, 08:44 PM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: RE: embers in the dark
| She feels the absence of his warmth acutely when he pulls away, but Drusilla stands firm, starting to recover some of her good sense. Her toes curl into the black sands, and she returns his dismissal ... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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11-16-2023, 05:29 PM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: RE: embers in the dark
| "Don't think so hard." Isn't that the statement of the century? Drusilla doesn't believe there's a moment of her life that hasn't been overshadowed by the turning cogs of her mind, always so damned de... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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11-16-2023, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: RE: embers in the dark
| Her heart may be rushing in her ears, but Drusilla has not lost her sense of self just yet; as she trails in the wake of this stranger, her shrewd gaze takes in their surroundings—not the beach or the... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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737 |
11-02-2023, 12:41 AM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: RE: embers in the dark
| 'Is their joy worth more than your own?'
Isn't it?
Drusilla cannot bring herself to speak those words aloud, despite the fact that they are right on the edge of her tongue, heavy in her breast—s... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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10-05-2023, 10:01 PM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: RE: embers in the dark
| Drusilla is immediately aware of the moment she is not alone; her right ear follows the crunch of approaching footsteps on dirt and sand, making it clear that she is aware of the nearby body—but other... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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737 |
09-30-2023, 12:16 AM |
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Thread: princess diaries
Post: RE: princess diaries
| Drusilla is endlessly busy these days. The months until she earns her professorship loom over her head, closing in on her with unerring accuracy. She never has been the most friendly of wolves, but th... |
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Drusilla |
Ruins of the Arboretum
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09-29-2023, 11:13 PM |
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Thread: putting all your thoughts back together
Post: putting all your thoughts back together
| all ended with her eyesDrusilla loves her job, but there are days when it wears on her—days like today. The people are restless, nervous, and worried for their safety in the coming weeks. She can hard... |
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Drusilla |
Rionna
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427 |
09-29-2023, 10:38 PM |
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Thread: atelophobia
Post: RE: atelophobia
| all ended with her eyesLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus in quam ante. Ut eu dui varius, tempor lorem nec, tempus augue. In luctus condimentum ante, a sollicitudin sapie... |
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Drusilla |
Post Logs
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09-18-2023, 07:13 PM |
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Thread: atelophobia
Post: RE: atelophobia
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus in quam ante. Ut eu dui varius, tempor lorem nec, tempus augue. In luctus condimentum ante, a sollicitudin sapien consectetur eget. Pro... |
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Drusilla |
Post Logs
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232 |
09-18-2023, 07:12 PM |
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Thread: atelophobia
Post: atelophobia
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam facilisis diam velit, id volutpat nisi semper at. Suspendisse risus lectus, dignissim at vehicula non, laoreet a diam. Nam bibendum pharetr... |
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Drusilla |
Post Logs
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232 |
09-18-2023, 07:07 PM |
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Thread: cornelia street
Post: cornelia street
| all ended with her eyes"Always a pleasure, Provost," Drusilla murmurs in parting, tipping her muzzle towards the earthen path through the garden as she leaves the professor to her herb gathering. What... |
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Drusilla |
Ruins of the Arboretum
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09-16-2023, 11:23 PM |
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Thread: embers in the dark
Post: embers in the dark
| To any passersby, it would seem that Drusilla is simply enjoying the view, lounging beneath a sinking sun and watching crashing waves below. It would be a good day for it; there is just enough wind of... |
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Drusilla |
Sussex
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737 |
09-15-2023, 08:46 PM |
