Tragically, the area where this was set suffered devastating wildfires the following year.

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Thorn stepped fully-formed into my head, looking suspiciously like Scarlet Beriko's character Rogi (although his image mellowed into his own person once I got to know him). He keeps pestering me to write a follow-up.

TNI's follow-up takes place about 15 years later!

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Ray first appeared in this story

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📖 short story: In Flight

A man struggling with his brother's death takes an overdue vacation and ends up consoling a younger man fresh off of a breakup.

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It shares a title with a fic I mention a lot on main, though the content is completely unrelated. Raymond was partly inspired by that character, however, which is why Runyu is currently my icon for this account

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📖 short story: The Night Immortal

An experiment in structure that led to the creation of Raymond Fisher from In Flight. This takes place 15 years earlier when he's freshly heartbroken.

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I'm never sure what to do with my original stuff, but a handful of short stories are stashed here!

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the new OCs are circling my head, but apart from the love story, the plot is nebulous right now. plotting is so annoying. can they just fall for each other and we skip the whole And Other Things Happen part?