Left in the Dust 16.10

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Left in the Dust 16.10
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Left in the Dust 16.10 is the tenth chapter of Left in the Dust.

Plot

Verona declarers her reasons she wants a Lost Kennet.

The Sable Prince appears before her and tells her that because she made an Oath she’ll be forsworn if she fails. He gives her a chance to back out if it and tells her she’ll have to answer two challenges, one to create the space and another to claim it as her own.

The Alabaster Doe says her challenger is here and the Milkmaid walks in. She goes on to say that her name is Clara, that she’s a copy and that she’s meant to illustrate something.

Clara attacks her, she pushes her and Verona she falls into a cellar full of corpse and sharpened farm equipment. She hides and the Milkmaid walks down dragging another victim. She opens the door to a trapped cabinet and a bear trap flies out hitting the Milkmaid followed by a harpoon.

They leave the house together and head to the barn, finding it full of people turned into cows. Verona also notices her alchemy supplies are here as well. The victim tires to pull a lever for the electricity and gets electrocuted.

The milkmaid arrives along with Toadswallow, Verona throws a vial at her and sets her on fire.

The scene moves and she finds herself with Peckersnot murdering Willydew, then Chloe attack Lucy, next John shooting some unknown person. She sees Matthew murdering elderly people at a hospital. Next is a scene of Rook and her fellow Oni arguing with a survivor after killing all the adults in a village and taking their food. After that is a scene where Lis is watching as a school girl pushes another girl down the stairs.

The Alabaster Doe challenges her to say how she’ll respond to darkness and violence in Kennet yet to be. Verona answers that she doesn’t want to fight the darkness or embrace it but to understand it, unravel it, redirect it and fix it.

The Aurum in Gold appears and says for the second challenge they’re going to ask her a question about the house.

Brett arrives at the house, complains about her and asks her “what makes you think you can take care of the house”. She accuses her of not being able to commit to anything, including Lucy and Avery. Of not being able to commit to Jeremy and threatening that her mom will abandon her again.

He goes on to complain about her not having good looking cloths. She responds by says she got injured, created art and brought new clothes, repaired friendships.

She tells Brett that it can stop wearing her dads face and he turns out to be the echos of the previous owners of the house. She dissolves the echos and Lucy reappears.

Tashlit arrives, doesn’t contest and gives her her dads fishing hook.

Next are Chloe and Nibble, neither of them contest her claim and Chloe offer a coupon to clean, tidy and organise the house. Nibble gives her a magical cursed car antenna that narrows vision till you only see murder and death scenes.

Reggie, Cig and Montague arrive and say no contest. Next up is Miss followed by Guilherme, neither of who contest her claim.

Next up are the goblins, Cherrypop, Nat, Jabber, Tatty, Toadswallow, Kittycough, Ramjam and all the rest of them. None of them contests her claim and Biscuit gives her some tequila with bugs in it, Peckersnot gives her a picture.

She challenges toad about his history with the Milkmaid and getting Peckersnot to kill Willydew, she says he should step down as council leader. Toad offers them a 10% discount at his market.

Where told that Rook is out of town.

Anthem Tedd walks in and asks if Avery’s here, Verona phones Avery and Anthem asks her why his daughter left Aaery's house in tears. Avery contact Zed who gets America to rings Anthem and tells him to let it go.

The final challenger are Lucy and Avery, neither of them contest her claim, Verona offers them to share her demesne.

The house becomes her Demesne.

As they leave they pass Anthem Tedd, he tells them Musser has taken Toronto and nearly half the remaining territories have surrendered.

Major Event

• Verona sees the Kennet Others violent past
• Verona confronts the echos of the house disguised as her dad
• Verona makes the House on Half Street her Demesne
• Musser has taken over Toronto

Characters

Kennet trio Lucy Verona Avery Kennet Others Tashlit Cig Reggie Montague Miss Guilherme Nibble Chloe Bubbleyum Cherrypop Nat Tatty Toadswallow Kittycough Ramjam Jabber Biscuit Peckersnot Others The Milkmaid Milkmaid's victim Willydew Matthew Echos of the house Judges Sable Prince Alabaster Doe Aurum in Gold Tedds Anthem Tedd America Tedd

References

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