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I'm working on chimera Ed au rn and I'm working on revising my first few paragraphs and stuff.

"Metal on stone, clunking and thudding against the hard surface with quick, uncoordinated movements, uncalculated, limping, but quick nonetheless. Pain and terror on the twisted face of the sounds origin. Teeth, protruded and sharp glistened in the moonlight, barred and revealed by curled lips; Wet and shivering lips, jowls shinning like tiny, pointed bits of clay. The mouth pertaining to them fell agape occasionally, sucking in deep breaths before the jaw snapped shut and clenched, tensed. Showing off those teeth as the lips that hid them curled and shifted. A snarl, but not one of malice, but of fear, an animal trying to make itself look tough. To look strong, deadly despite its small frame and frightened being. Shaking, trembling with leftover adrenaline as the figure moved incorrectly. It's body screamed wrong, wrong, wrong."

I'm trying dnznms

30 DAYS, 30 LINES CHALLENGE

Day 10, 7/31/22

From Where Paradise Died and Lived:

Her life ran on autopilot now. The continuous relay of six hour shifts, rotating between night and day, seemed to be the strongest sense of time she understood. Her off days swung variously between feeling interminable and fleeting. 

plotting day 25 (or something along those lines, maybe longer)

We live in the same four walls, in the same courtyard, in the same pagoda. And yet, we couldn’t be more far away, like when there was a vast ocean between us. There is no glue to reunite my family together—only determination and desperation. 

everything and nothing makes sense.