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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.22

Luck and time had been good to the Starks of Winterfell over the past year. No, Ned should place the majority of that merit on Castle Hogwarts’ shoulders, in truth… That much was clear as he and his family stood there, awaiting their royal gue...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.21

Susan sighed contentedly, “Ah, now this is the life.”

“A proper cuppa in this world,” Hannah mused with humorous awe. “Who would have thought?”

“This might just be my favorite place after Hogwarts,” Nevill...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.20

[AN: Alright, folks, I’ve got a monster

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.19

Astoria’s spy trip hadn’t gone to plan at all. And that was fine. Daddy always preached to opt for optimum optimism, after all! Silver linings were for suckers when you could look for gold! And there was plenty of gold to find here and now. Wh...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.18

“Way hay and up she rises,

“Way hay and up she rises,

“Way hay and up she rises~, Earl-eye in the morning~!”

Robert Baratheon, First of His Name, and all of the other damned titles sang as he rode alo...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.17

We knew about Neville’s actions at the Dreadfort before anyone else. So we knew to prepare ourselves for the fallout and backlash. It wasn’t nearly as bad as we were expecting. The Boltons didn’t have many friends even among their own vassal...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.16

“Auror! Report!” Amelia Bones — a ‘heavily-pregnant-for-the-second-time’ Amelia Bones — barked.

Susan snapped to attention beside Neville and he was once again thankful that she didn’t hold the same demanding standards for hims...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.15

[AN: This chapter took a bit longer to

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.14

Blaise Zabini was rather enjoying Dorne as he’d seen it so far. The sun beat down on everything, a constant presence but not always a harsh one. The air carried a dry sort of heat that settled pleasantly against his skin. Wind was more common th...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.13

“I rather like all of the ‘white’.”

“Hmph.”

“It’s a beautiful city. Shame it’s the only one in the North.”

“Hnn.”

“Severus, are you still cross about the brooms? It’s ...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.12

Jon felt like he’d been made a man before his time. He was still only five and ten. A boy turning into a man, no doubt. But he shouldn’t have been as far along that journey as he was. Often, he longed for the simple days of two years ago. When...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.11

It seemed Hogwarts’ expansion beyond New Hogsmeade was finally getting underway. The Tyrell visit and stay was the catalyst for that but we’d been planning it for a while now. However, plans changed and adjusted to fit new information and the ...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.10

Two primal feminine forces of sex and beauty clashed. Red and white. Smoldering embers of fervor and zeal. White-hot sparks of obsession and passion that burned hot enough to blind. They circled around each other. Around and around, seemingly agre...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.9

Time passed after the arrival of the Caravan of the Cursed. Both less and more happened on a day-to-day basis in this new world. Each day saw progress, a constant build to something more, something to call our own. But they were mostly little step...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.8

< Quest Completed: New Beginnings >

< Get the lay of the land, near and far! Settle yourself and Hogwarts into a stable situation. >

< Rewards: +3 to Mind, Rulership Discipline u...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.7

Jynn Hill was a young woman of seven and ten. She was a bastard of the Westerlands but one better off than most. For where most baseborn daughters would only be able to work as whores or serving wenches, Jynn was a maid in the legendary Casterly R...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.6

The bells of the castle sept rang, leading the charge for the septs of the town below. With the clear signal, another dawn had come and passed. Most of the town was long awake at that point. The Smallfolk rose with the sun. And the more intelligen...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.5

It took a few moments to recover after Ned and his men turned themselves into torches, taken completely by surprise by the impossible nature of the Wizards’ Fire Whiskey. Truly, none of them had expected to belch great gouts of flame like Volant...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.4

Lord Paramount Eddard of House Stark, the Quiet Wolf, Lord of Winterfell, and Warden of the North. Ned to his friends. Even after nearly twenty years, the titles hadn’t fully grown on him… Ned Stark was a man of many things. Honor. Righteousne...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.3

“Footwork, Atlas! Footwork!” Cygnus’ voice came in delighted exclamations and instructions as I went through the motions he’d shown me.

“It all comes back to footwork, good chum! Keep a stable base! Step with your strikes an...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.2

[AN: Power creep be creeping... Seriously though, the feats of Knights and Lords in ASOIAF are firmly superhuman and you can't convince me otherwise.]

“This is all so, so, so fucked…” I groaned, feeling...

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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.1

(Atlas pic)

I stared at my status screen, rationalizing what I saw there to myself, ‘It was a vacation. Be glad there’s any progress...

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A Gacha-Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.8

Saint was testy. On edge. He always was, to a certain extent, but that extent was even worse that morning. The day before, he’d barely had any time to monitor the wretched AI Dragon as he usually did. That fact was wearing on his nerves somethin...

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A Gacha-Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.7

[I However Am Real].”

The moment Edgar said his line, intoning the name of his perk as it activated, his eyes closed. The ether of information and code opened up before him. In that new cyber frontier, Edgar thru...

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A Gacha-Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.6

“Dragon…?” Narwhal asked, her voice strained. “What… exactly am I looking at here…?”

Narwhal sat behind her desk, as usual for her routine first thing in the morning. Upon arriving at her post, she’d been greeted by tw...

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Goth Girls Galore Ch.15

“So what’d you think about your first college class, Fishies?” Gwen asked, smirking as she, Adam, and Ruby walked out of Professor Yen’s lecture hall.

“It was fascinating,” Adam answered. “I don’t think I’ve heard th...

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Goth Girls Galore Ch.14

“Damn, what are the odds?” Adam shook his head incredulously.

“Heheh… W-What do you mean?” Ruby asked, putting on her best attempt at innocence.

“‘I mean’ our schedules are exactly the same!” Adam laughe...

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Goth Girls Galore Ch.13

Some more Ruby before we start ;]

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A Gacha-Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.5

[Feat: Escape from the Birdcage! +200P, 1100P total.]

There was a flash. Then something, somewhere was suddenly, somehow, someplace else. It was a monumental undertaking. A technological achievement even for Dragon. E...

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A Gacha-Grimoire System's Fae Gamble Ch.4

“Farewell, little Ciara~!” Edgar called as he left her cell. “Hold your door ever open for me. I’ll return. For you, I’ll never mind revisiting my stories of the Winter Court.”

“You better…” Ciara pouted after him, h...

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