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Araglas inherits the chieftainship of the Dunedain of Arnor upon his father's death. But Araglas has been living in Rivendell all this while. Meanwhile, his second cousin Arthiel has been acting as his father's right hand in the Angle.

Araglas comes up with a plan that stuns Arthiel and her lover.

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Pinterest finds for my nurses idea. Up top, from front to back, Ava Mathers, Evelyn Hoyt, and Charlotte Thorton. They went through the Red Cross nursing training together and managed to get stationed together at Thorpe Abbotts.

Ava and Charlotte are small town girls from different states. Evelyn's from Chicago and a society girl. They're all about 22.

Charlotte likes being small town. She's a tiny thing and gets assumed to be easy to trick or passive because she's so nice, but she's stuck a hypodermic in a man's shoulder once, and she'll do it again if needed.

Ava's got some shitty small town gossip baggage and doesn't want to ever end up in a town like where she grew up. Joining up with the Red Cross was the first step in getting away while also getting trained up for a good job she can get in a city.

Ava and Evelyn became friends when Ava just flat-out asked Evelyn to teach her how to be fancier. They befriended Charlotte because they got teamed up in study group, and she's a tiny firecracker twice as smart as anyone else. Evelyn is the one I know the least about so far. Still waiting to figure her out fully.

The Updated and Still Complicated Family Group Chat

Khun: Arm and I are embarking for our trip tomorrow night! You know what that means!!!!!! 🪨🍃😈🥬🟫

Nalin: Weed brownie night?!?

Arm: Please tell me you didn't add my younger sisters to this group chat.

Khun: Well, I didn't add Preeda! She went to rehab! 😱 Mustn’t tempt her. But of course I added Nalin! If Macau and Chay can be in the group chat, then she can be too!

Nalin: Don't be sexist, Hia. 🙂

Vegas: Someone needs to watch my baby.

Pete: Why is she only your baby when you talk about her?

Vegas: Because she's mine.

Malai: Someone needs to watch my babies too. I want to join.

Hansa: I don't mind watching the girls.

Vegas: Is my baby included with these girls?

Hansa: Sure. 🙂

Vegas: I want six references, your resume, and a background check.

Hansa: By tonight?

Macau: Hia, she owns a flower arrangement and gardening shop. Chill.

Vegas: I am chill. And reasonable.

Pol: I can sit out and help with the girls too. 🙂

Vegas: You can also give me six references, a resume, and a background check. 🙂

Pete: It's literally Pol.

Vegas: I don't know him like you do.

Pete: Consider me his and Hansa’s first reference.

Khun: Consider me their second! 2️⃣🥈🕑

Porsche: I'm their fourth!

Chay: Hia, you skipped a number.

Porsche: He wouldn't have even noticed if you hadn't pointed it out, brat. 🙄

Chay: Sorry. I guess I will fill in the third spot, then.

Kim: I’ll fill the fifth.

Chay: Hia, switch spots with Kim so we can be next to each other.

Porsche: No. I went out of order and called fourth for a reason. It's mine. 😏

Macau: I’ll take the sixth spot so Chay can't grab it!

Porsche: Good thinking, Macau!

Kim: ?

Chay: 😤 🖕🏽

Bless you for asking, dear ~ I'm so glad you see something lovely about them! And yes, yes I do put a little of myself in each of them. Mayhap, my best qualitiest idealized...for they do not bear the scars this life has given me, so it's far easier for them to be kind, compassionate, and understanding ~ though their capacity for love is all my own. In their cases, they are very lucky because they've found someone to give their love to. Most of them were already passionate women before they meet the man they fall in love with. If that makes me a one-trick pony, and them, 'Mary Sue's', I'm happy in the place I've found. As Stephen King famously advised for writers just starting out, 'write what you know'. Well, I know my heart, and each of my OCs bear some part of it.

There are differences, of course, and I try to give them all some real world flaws. Beauty is clumsy

and judges rashly at times, and is prone to talk too much. Teyla is timid, but when she loves it makes her brave. Hope, as an Artist, tends to be a dreamer and is terribly stubborn. Fanny is the most practical among them, because she's had her heart (and nearly her spirit) broken. But in all cases, they are truer to themselves than I've ever been able to be.

And for the most part, giving someone unconditional love (especially someone who believes he doesn't deserve it) is a healing that they long to share.

Summary: Alfie has little to no idea why Caroline ever gave him the time of day. The blind woman seemed far too sensible to even speak to him. But soon he finds himself falling helplessly in love.

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possible quackity lore soon... could that mean..