wee. lol I love no school days like today. the only problem, I have a five-paragraph essay due tomorrw. I haven't started. cry Fahrenheight 451 is a very strange book to any of you that have read it.
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“Kastou!” Kira’s cry of frustrasion echoed through the forest. Angerly, she kicked the tree in front of her, making its knarled trunk quiver.
“That’s it,” Kira balled her hands into fists as though preparing for the tree’s counter-attack. “I’m leaving this stupid place. I’ve been chased out of villages again and again. No more.” This last village had been the worst. Gingerly, Kira streched out her wing. It wasn’t gushing blood from the wound the man’s machete had put in it like when she was running out of the village, but it still hurt. Plus, the wound prevented her from fly until it healed. Kira sighed and dug her sharp nails into the bark of the tree, then began to climb up to her “home” high in the trees. In reality, her house was a platform made of branches in the crook of two branches, an animal hide stretched over it to keep the rain off. Muttering under her breath, Kira gathered her meager belongings and stuffed them into a pack that she threw over her shoulder.
“Goodbye, and good riddance!” Kira shouted to the forest as she pulled the support branch out from under the platform, bringing the whole structure crashing to the ground. Gracefully, Kira swung down from the tree. She gave her home of twenty years one last look, then left
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Dragon Daze
(used to be Vice-Versa) Ryan thinks he's a normal kid, but then his adoptive parents die and he's shipped off to live with a grandfather he's never met. And then there's his new high school, where no one is quite human. (Check archive for first chap)
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