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“Astral?” Wind Valley was still in bloom from the near-constant light drizzle that had settled over the landscape. It was a breath of fresh air. A reminder that nobody had actually been hurt beyond repair. That fresh starts could come in any form. Pepper understood this. Perhaps now more than ever as she made her way with purpose through the bamboo forests and the rolli...

“Calmed down, have we?” Pepper found herself deep between the mountains that surrounded Wind Valley. She’d been trying to get away from the cottage in Woolhope more often in an effort to figure out who she was and it wasn’t going well. So many eyes on her these days made blunders far harsher for her. The fog had lifted. And as it turned out, Pepper was not a pleasan...

The biting cold of winter was not yet over as the early spring months flew across the pages of the calendar. The budding of the trees and the sleepy yawns of the earliest flowers were still dealing with the kiss of frost in the early morning and the whipping winds of a season that was not yet ready to relinquish control over the world. However, there was the occasional warmth, uncharacteristic of the darkness, and very welcome. Esther, a Crook who had had the unfortunate respons...