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Challenge #05001-M252: Circle of Kindness

A part of the boogey's bitterness was the people before, the ones who were driven out and the house slowly fell to state it was in, was they put POISON in the milk. The child had heard that much, and one of the gifts, thanks to her family's help, were little pouches of antidotes and treatments for symptoms that can last ages from such poisonings.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04982-m233-redemption-from-horror -- BKF

The special powder came in a small, waxed paper envelope that could easily fit in Melody's palm if she were allowed to hold it. It also came with a small book of instructions that Papa read out loud before placing it in the gift space.

"Don't you go messing with it, lovey," Dad insisted. "It's for the good spirits of the house, so they can feel better."

"It's medicine," Melody told herself and anyone that went near it. "It's for the good folk and you never play with medicine." She didn't need to guard it for long. The envelope and its contents were gone by the next day.

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Challenge #05000-M251: A Fifth of Scheherezade

Wraithvine nearly drowns, is awakened to Chance giving hir CPR and Scramble retrieving hir hat and the group's belongings. Fortunately, save for some food supplies, they lose very little. -- BKF

Thunder in hir ears. Burning lungs in need of air, not the fluid currently invading them. Fading light. A confusion of things in hir sight.

Hir goddess whispered to hir, Not today, my lovely.

Small hands on hir chest. Lips on hirs. Air in hir lungs and the taste of someone

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Challenge #04999-M250: Unappealing Case

A litter of wayward kittens, barely weaned, become very attached to "Dex" following him around trying to get cuddles. -- BKF

There's a certain amount of chaos in every life. For example, his father the King had occasionally had to sit the Blood Throne whilst pulling double duty as his infant daughter's favourite bed. The trick, Dad said, was to carry on as if everything was perfectly normal and to let others turn it into a problem.

"And then," Dad said with

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Challenge #04998-M249: Heart of the Hearth

On a cold, rainy, night, it's very peaceful to sit by the fire listening to the rain drum the roof, while your cat purrs contentedly in your lap. -- BKF

The weather outside was truly frightful. Cold rain that was almost sleeting. Blustery winds that turned said rain in varying slants that would render umbrellas nigh to useless.

A perfect evening for relaxing indoors.

Arelgi had set up a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace and, with dinner in her

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Challenge #04997-M248: Bred For Business

The crew of the research vessel learns from the human how to train canines properly so the animals can help carry light, for the animals, loads, and help protect the crew when the human is unable to. -- BKF

[AN: Surprise, I know jack shit about dog training! Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt]

In centuries past, on a Deathworld appropriately named Terra, the Humans looked at the wolf and said something like, "That looks friend-shaped." The descendants of those wolves were

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Challenge #04996-M247: Informal Test

They had wooden knives with red dye, and were very stealthy on their feet. They came silently at the hellkin, but not to kill. This was merely a test of skill. -- BKF

Of all the truths known to the Martialist community, one is whispered amongst students: Only a Master can beat a Master.

It had rustled its way through the student accommodations in Hidden Cloud on the day that a seventeen-year-old Hellkin had defeated Master Bai in a duel. For weeks,

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Challenge #04995-M246: Herd of Ranching?

Some Alliance members want to experience what it's like on a ranch. Riding, herding, and the foods that are enjoyed there. -- BKF

[AN: Farming doesn't have to be a tourist activity, no matter how advanced the civilisation]

It's not that cattle farming is extinct. It's just that tube-grown meat is cheaper and more economical in space stations and long-haul vessels. Since most of Alliance interactions occur in those environments, it's simple to presume that cattle farming is a bygone art.

Nothing

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Challenge #04994-M245: Complex Organic Processes

You have the answers you were seeking, but can you handle what you have learned? -- BKF

The pursuit of ethical food sources has to stop somewhere. There is a line that should not be crossed, no matter what. Unfortunately, Humans do not like lines, drawn in sand or otherwise. A barrier that must not be crossed is a challenge to their egos, or something of the sort.

So, when Humanity was told that there was no purely ethical nourishment, they established

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Challenge #04993-M244: All a Part of...

"You are a Healer, a doctor"/ Yes I am.

"Yet you are a devout follower of Mistress Dark"/ Yes I am

"But you fight Her constantly."/ No I don't.

"I don't understand."/ I do what I can to save my patients, alleviate pain, treat illness and injury. But when She comes, and there is no way back, I can at least give them comfort in knowing they do not journey to the next world alone. -- BKF

Hospitals do double duty as

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Challenge #04992-M243: Noncogniscent Haptic Therapy

A great way to help a bunch of students preparing for Final Exams in school? Rooms full of cute and fluffy to cuddle with, talk to, and, in doing so, de-stress enough to handle Exams. -- BKF

Much has been done to improve education within the Alliance. Reduction of class sizes, multiple teaching methods, the reduction of varying crisis factors. Nevertheless, exam time ends up putting many students into a mental spiral where their best effort could be better, and doing it

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Challenge #04991-M242: Remember the Fairy Bread

Several of Sensei Twii's students plan a surprise birthday party for hir! -- BKF

"How old is ze anyway?" asked Lynn. "I tried searching, but nobody has an accurate number."

"I think there's a few one-way wormholes involved and temporal confusion[1] in there somewhere." Jem laid out all her research on her datareader. There was a lot of conflicting information. "We could ask, but... That would spoil the surprise."

"We couldn't get the small fire permit anyway," sighed Keit as he

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Challenge #04990-M241: For What Ails You

Poor Scramble catches a cold. -- BKF

Temporal magic can do a lot of things. It can help with so much in the everyday adventures of life. What it can't do is prevent illnesses. Scramble could be forewarned, and therefore fore-armed of events in hir immediate future. Ze could dodge any material missile thrown hir way, or catch it if it was food.

Nobody had thrown something at Scramble for months, but ze caught a cold nevertheless.

The best remedy, no matter

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Challenge #04989-M240: Incorrect Theory in Practice

It's a beautiful evening, camping is going well. Nice fire, yummy food... now if only the mosquitoes weren't such a pain in the tail! Thank goodness for repellent! Need some? -- BKF

"I'd love just one that flakking works," grumbled Companion Xia. "I altered my diet to change the taste of my blood. I'm wearing the repellent bracelets, and the cream, and the spray." They sighed, swatting at a whine in the air. "And I'm still too delicious for my own good.

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Challenge #04988-M239: Trafficking Hazardous Materials

A coughing fit spreads throughout the ship. They find out a deregger smuggled in several pollinating plants instead of the seeds in stasis pods they said they had. -- BKF

It never would have happened if the scanners weren't down for maintenance. Later analysis would reveal that there was sabotage on them to manufacture a maintenance flaw.

It's amazing what malicious people can do with magnets, thumb drives, and a complete disregard for anyone's safety.

Slow Cruiser Vessel, the Idle Hours, took

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Challenge #04987-M238: I Wanna Be Just Like You

"I want to be a Hellkin."

Why?

"Because they're the only ones who ever showed what real kindness is." -- BKF

Everyone thinks 'Hellkin' when they hear the phrase "Unwelcome People". The thing is, they're not the only Unwelcome People. It alters according to realm, politics, and local prejudice. But you can rely on Hellkin being among that number[1].

They accrete in ghettos or spend their years wandering from one locale to another. Trying for the most part to find somewhere

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