Today is basically Dunstana’s ‘Chess with Death’ (though, techniaclly, it’s an evil wizard…) moment.
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“Chess me,” Dunstana declares, looking up from the board.
“Chess… you?” her opponent asks from underneath the shadows of his hood.
“Why did we let Dunstana play chess with the evil wizard who wants to eat our souls?” Kat mutters.
“She’s faster than she looks,” Tenebella answers. “She was the first to the table.”
Kat groans. If she had a mark for every time an evil wizard challenged her and her friends to some crazy competition with their souls on the line, she’d have two marks.
Normally, Kat isn’t one to turn down free money, but, frankly, that’s two marks too many…
“Tenebella,” Kat says. “The next time you and an evil wizard have your eye on the same book of… weird stuff —”
“Eldritch lore,” Tenebella says indignantly.
“— you’re on your own.”
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