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Chosen. Again. by J. Emery

She saved the kingdom once. She didn't expect there to be a repeat performance. At sixteen, Ari fell into a portal and found herself in Callaria, a magical alternate world in need of a hero. So she did the coming-of-age quest. She saved the kingdom and kissed the farmboy turned King. And when she was done... she went home. She never forgot about her time in Callaria. It never forgot her either, and now thirteen years later, she's back. Drafted into the role of Champion once more, Ari discovers that magic doesn't mean freedom from consequences. Her actions a decade ago caused ripples that didn't go away when she did. The gawky apprentice wizard she once called a friend is now a cynical Royal Wizard with a penchant for floor length velvet robes and dangerous secrets. Her magic sword is giving her the silent treatment. The evil ruler she thought she defeated is living in the dungeon, making cryptic predictions that sound a little too much like fact. The farmboy turned King...

Clear Your Shit: Campfire and new friends (Scary)

It turns out that there's a lot of people on this quest. So many that when we were ready to stop for the night we found a cluster of campfires in an impromptu tent village. Everyone was on the same quest as we were. We joined one of the fires and started telling scary stories. I read a few out of Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James, but we decided that the occasionally actually creepy story wasn't worth the old-timey racism and I didn't finish the book. 

Now we'll have to sleep tonight... yay, no problem at all, sleeping... after that. In the woods. With a bunch of strangers around, just out of the light of the slowly dimming fire. 

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