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Day 3, just under 600 words, still behind. A lot of today was spent on planning the scene.<\/p>\n
Rough draftiness, with Dakota infiltrating a church using her magic tattoos:<\/p>\n
My eyelids flickered as the orchid petals infiltrated the lock, a jumble of images and feelings flooding back to me as the interlocking parts of the stamen column felt the tumblers. It was hard to see and \u201csee\u201d at the same time, much less guide the\u2014<\/p>\n
Click.<\/em><\/p>\n
I drew a careful breath, then turned my hand. The petals and sepals closed on the knob and turned it, softly, and I gingerly opened the doors. My vines and their floating leaves shifted as the heavy wood parted, but did not otherwise react: no security system had been triggered.<\/p>\n
The church was spacious, almost cavernous \u2026 but not wholly dark. An eerie blue glow filtered in from the twin rows of stained glass, but the white light glinting off the rows of pews came from a pool of spotlights, pinioning before the altar a gleaming silver coffin.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friend,\u201d came a quiet Asian voice. \u201cYou should not have come here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instantly I whirled 270, twisting mana up in my body, murmuring shield<\/em> just as I came face to face with \u2026 a priest? A typical, nay, stereotypical<\/em> long-cassocked priest, stepping from a confessional, bearing an ornate pectoral cross and carrying a gun \u2026 no \u2026 a water pistol<\/em>?<\/p>\n
\u201cLet this be a warning to you,\u201d he said, and fired. \u201cBegone!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Writing every day.<\/p>\n
-the Centaur<\/p>\n
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