Chapter 8: Twisted Tales

Excerpt:

"So, you're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured arm."

Haru merely grinned a little ruefully and continued on with her task. "Just… promise you won't freak out, okay?"

Baron eyed the hair with renewed unease. "Funnily enough, that doesn't set my heart at ease." He leant forward, bringing his face dangerously close to Haru's. "Why, exactly, would I need to promise that – ah!"

Haru pulled her hair tight around the wound with a decisive tug. "Just sit still unless you want me to make a mess of this."

"That hurt," Baron accused.

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Submitted by @ono-its-ryane:

I just realized that about half of your fics are the length of novels, and I applaud you for this.

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Oh lol thank you! Most of my fics are actually the length of a novella, though, between 35k and 40k words.

But, I have a confession to make: I’m so used to reading fantasy books (that, because of the complex plot, tend to be way longer) that I had always thought anything shorter than 150k words to be a short novel, and anything shorter than, say, 80k words more a novella than a novel. After seeing again this graphic, however, I checked my Calibre library and realized that I had grossly overestimated a typical novel word count. Wow…

@audreycritter who wanted Jason in this, and I felt compelled. ^^;

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