Story: "Squiggles" 1513.08.01
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ysabetwordsmith"Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal"
1513.08.01
My acceptance letter from the University of Affamarg came today, pending sufficiently high scores on my year-end tests. I also have a contingency letter from Affayasilith in case Affamarg wouldn't take me, but I'd rather go to Affamarg anyway.
So, I sold all my mice to Sraffi, with arrangements to borrow the ones I need to display for my final project. I hate to do it, but I really can't take them with me and she is the person I trust most to carry on our breeding program. At least I'll still get the royalties on Squiggle Mouse sales. Also, by next year the golden Squiggle Mice should be ready for public display and sale. I'll have to read about it in letters, though.
Then I took my brother and sister shopping in a luxury district. I bought a new bicycle for Egram, since he helped me so much with the mice over the years. I bought a box of spices for Inaleir, imported from Faarar across the inland sea. She laughed and said I could stop apologizing for stealing her salt that one time. I bought myself a Hell Mouse. It's based on a crazy myth about hole mice. So this is a taxidermied hole mouse with exaggerated fangs and claws (I think those came from a housecat) and little silver wires to represent the "lightning" striking out from its fur. Inaleir says it looks gross but I think it's cute ... in a gross sort of way.
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1513.08.01
My acceptance letter from the University of Affamarg came today, pending sufficiently high scores on my year-end tests. I also have a contingency letter from Affayasilith in case Affamarg wouldn't take me, but I'd rather go to Affamarg anyway.
So, I sold all my mice to Sraffi, with arrangements to borrow the ones I need to display for my final project. I hate to do it, but I really can't take them with me and she is the person I trust most to carry on our breeding program. At least I'll still get the royalties on Squiggle Mouse sales. Also, by next year the golden Squiggle Mice should be ready for public display and sale. I'll have to read about it in letters, though.
Then I took my brother and sister shopping in a luxury district. I bought a new bicycle for Egram, since he helped me so much with the mice over the years. I bought a box of spices for Inaleir, imported from Faarar across the inland sea. She laughed and said I could stop apologizing for stealing her salt that one time. I bought myself a Hell Mouse. It's based on a crazy myth about hole mice. So this is a taxidermied hole mouse with exaggerated fangs and claws (I think those came from a housecat) and little silver wires to represent the "lightning" striking out from its fur. Inaleir says it looks gross but I think it's cute ... in a gross sort of way.
See the landing page for "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal."
