"Well a gust can't push things around that hard, it sounded pretty heavy, whatever it was that struck the floor. You head in and turn right, heading towards another room, appears to be a dining room. Fine china sitting in a cabinet, dust covered but still intact. But as you turn to examine the room, you notice a chair knocked over on its side, and a glass split on the persian dust covered rug. Wine? It smells like it, white wine maybe. Someone is here."
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"You step closer down the hallway to check out the calendar. That's odd, you don't even remember the date it was the last time you were awake! But the printed date appears to be July 8th, 1954! How in blazes..
Something crashes in the other room, deeper into the house first floor. You stand still as a post, listening closely for a few moments....nothing, no movement, but nothing could have knocked something over, right?"
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"You stop in front of the house next door to the one you just fled from, it appears to be in good condition, no holes in the wall or any of that nonsense from the outside anyway. The curtains appear to be still as well, no movement from what you can see in the windows. It's a two story, so you might find some good hiding spaces inside.
The door opens soundlessly, not even a creak in the floorboards, but down the hall you spot a calendar that looks new!"
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"Almost to the front door, you can feel the fresh air whistling through the crevices! Run, faster! The giant rat leaps to spring at your back! But it just barely misses you landing in your trial with a heavy thud of its body weight slamming into the old floor panels, dust kicking up as you slam the door open and bolt out into the street in terror!
No rat meat for you, but it's not eating you either so that's a win, right?"
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(Coin Flip! Hubs picking last second to help break the tie! Run for it!)
"It's so nearby, good gods, is that the smell of a rotting banana? It's horrible! No, coffee grinds...wait, why are you smelling trash!?

You jump up and race for the doorway, the huge furry creature catching sight of you and darts after your heels! Wait, heels? The creature appears to be a very large, very fat looking rodent of some kind, but the teeth are HUGE!"

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"Just. Stay. Put. Maybe it's like a dino from Jurassic Park! Right? You can hear it's breathing, deep, and the couch shifts with you behind it. Moving you with it! Whatever it is, it's a BIG boy. The floor creaks as it moves to check out the other end of the couch, not far from you. What to do, what to do! In a panic, you dive for a shadowed space near the broken wall heater halfway across the floor, and the remains of an armchair."
"It froze, sniffing."
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"Shhhh shhh, it's coming closer. You can hear the steps, heavy, slow. Whatever it is, it must be larger than you cause the creaks are almost wood panel breaking in volume.

You lean just a bit to peek around the arm of the broken couch, shadows playing across the floors and what appears to be a large....dark furred...broad chest. Your head ducks back before you could see it's head, but the heavy breathing tells you it's close enough to possibly smell you."
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"Well, that wasn't a working door, but there does appear to be a doorway not far, you can barely see it with the flashlight pointed that way on the floor. You reach to pick up the light, only to hear the floor creak, but not from your own footstep.

Alarmed, you dart for the broken couch, hiding behind it with the flashlight tucked beneath your jacket arm. That creak, again, louder, closer. You shouldn't dare to look, but the urge is very much there."
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So, the story behind Serriss the Sapphire Dragon, I'm sure there's a few curious about her given the poll results this past weekend.

Serriss is one of 9 tirikan characters from a world called Pellea, it's a fifth dimensional universe star system they originated from so they are quite displaced and refugees in a universe where humans, of all creatures, exist! The tirikan are quite protective of human kind, and don't mind their two legged ground-bound neighbors at all.
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Amusingly this popped up on my FB feed, and I thought to share. #CoSoPagans #CoSoWriting