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ed whining or tantrums with collateral damage. Salix Viridis school

, Marlene Croft.

y veins. They gazed at me with foxy eyes while they b

ost more than my entire house and at the paintings that had sud

r place I was going

oing to get fired anyway. I stewed a little, hoping against hope that my boss

dame Bellenuit had suddenly ap

he said with her arms crossed, and squin

m so sorry," I said,

ess, I was thankful. She had kept me for three months, longer t

you anymore, girly,"

id, "But my sister has been looking for new employees. She lives near your home. Her s

thinking twice I hugged

s old, and four years my senior. Because our mother was old and ill, and Mads could actually hold a job, she found work somewhere she hated.

expensive treatment, a fact that did not bother me. My sister and I would ju

er, one of our only support against the dark creatures that tried to murder/eat/enslave us, I had studied poisons and

ll me. She was in awe at my ability to withstand their attempts of obedience without enchanted runes. I was

t my job-destroyi

" Maddie said, after seeing that I was a bit melancholic. She

again," I sai

?" she changed her tune, "If you asked me, car

ure like a baby chicken protected and

hey didn't trust her expertise, it was her temper that got in the way. And horrible job it might be, but the salary was good eno

was so adamant about the results of it, the benefits, that she tol