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Cheri took the envelope from the hooded man and thanked him before turning it over in her hands. It had her name on it, with no return address, but it looked a century old!

When she looked up to ask the hooded man how he'd come by it, he was gone.

With nothing else to do, Cheri carefully opened it, finger easily tearing the aged paper.

Inside, there was a single sheet of paper: a letter written in Cheri's own handwriting.

She read it once, twice, and then just stared.

'Just want to say hi and tell you not to give up on that time machine!'

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"Reach in," the witch said as she held out the velvet sack. "Whatever you pull out is what you need."

Jodie wasn't entirely sure about this. She didn't think she needed anything. But she'd been curious and paid her coin and maybe there was something...

Closing her eyes, Jodie reached into the sack. Though it had looked heavy and full, there was surprisingly only one object inside.

She closed her hand around it and pulled it out.

The witch just smiled as Jodie opened her hand. There on her palm...

...well, Jodie laughed.

She'd needed that.

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"Not yet!" Leanna cried as she reached for the demon she'd summoned as he stepped back towards his circle.

"The time has passed," he said softly. "I cannot stay."

"But look..."

There, in the hourglass set at the edge of the array, a single grain of sand sat snagged on some minor imperfection.

The demon considered this before nodding. Rules were rules and exceptions were exceptions. Both were complicated.

"Where were we?" he asked.

Leanna smiled and gestured back toward her yarn stash.

"We were debating what to do with the purple."

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"So what's your point?" Melody asked flatly. The conversation was going nowhere, but it was at least giving them something to do.

"My point," Hoyt began, before his eyes went wide. "Duck!"

He shoved Melody down beneath the edge of the wall just as a volley of arrows came flying. Melody was fine, but Hoyt...

Oh, he was not winning this one by dying! Melody could hear the soldiers below and took a deep breath.

One little resurrection wouldn't exhaust her too badly.

A moment later, Hoyt was just staring at her.

"Your point?" Melody insisted.

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The rain had started before Griffon arrived at the market and all the little stalls without roofs and vendors who just spread their wares on blankets had packed up and left already.

That would make his job more difficult, he knew, but if he was going to find what he needed anywhere in the town, it would be at this market.

Those who remained sold a mix of food and household goods, mostly. Not what Griffon was after. Not what-

He saw it suddenly, glittering deep beneath an awning despite the rain.

"That one," he said quickly. "That one."

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