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Strong Female Lead
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Somewhere right now a toothless old grandfather is shivering in a poorhouse, starving and without visitors. Somewhere an orphan- who wasn't rescued by Peter- is being beaten by a harsh nurse or sold as a slave to a factory owner. And somewhere in the world, girls have little ability to make their voices heard, or the power to change things. I think about the way I changed things in the Land of the First... and here, with your and Thorn's help... and I wonder if I can use a little of that magic a
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― Straight On Till Morning
― Straight On Till Morning
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The gravity of our situation isn't lost on me, but I stall for a few more moments. No one will like what I have to say.
Our island is self-sufficient alright. Except for the threads of kelp we use to make súgán, rope that makes the trambles that we desperately need to catch fish. The long-stranded kelp comes from a dangerous, forbidden place below the island, a land belonging to no one that is situated between us and an enemy tribe, a tribe of fish people known as Iasc. As such, for lack of a b
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― Winning Collection 2020
― Winning Collection 2020
