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SSCS 02: Installment 13 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 13 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 13 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… A bit like gran-Tom’s – probably the only feature where Mina matched gran-Tom, who was scaly and tentacley and clawed – something mostly from the sea.  But maybe she’d been forced…

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SSCS 02: Installment 12 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 12 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 12 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “There are oyster bells blooming in the cliff-cracks on the north side of the spire,” gran-Tom’s musty voice cracked out.  “They’ll have to do.  And they’ll keep until tomorrow, too, so…

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SSCS 02: Installment 11 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 11 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 11 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Mina could turn her head now, could look gran-Tom in the eye and see the old priestess’ grin hidden there, even as more kraken tentacles looped down around her shoulders, like…

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SSCS 02: Installment 10 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 10 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 10 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Then, gently, a weight came to rest on the exposed side of Mina’s neck, the Other One touching her, still staying where Mina couldn’t see.  Next, a slow, soft stroke downward…

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SSCS 02: Installment 9 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 9 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 9 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Gran-Tom?  I ask your humblest apologies.”  The words spilled themselves out, like the ritual they shouldn’t be but were, and Mina’s knees bent the rest of the way, down to the…

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SSCS 02: Installment 8 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 8 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 8 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Now that –” he started, the tiny scales around his eyes flashing a brief gold.  But before he could say anything else, the kraken gave another of its bone-grindingly loud and…

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SSCS 02: Installment 7 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 7 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 7 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Just then, though, they became aware of a low, sweet-edged humming throbbing through the air, slowly building in volume, as some sort of mist (or bits of dust?) spattered down around…

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SSCS 02: Installment 6 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 6 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 6 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… She’d only ever seen the kraken on the holy days of the full moon, when gran-Tom sang the songs that were more, the Moon songs, and the kraken was let out…

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SSCS 02: Installment 5 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 5 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 5 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Because of course, just because a pig could fly, didn’t mean it would fly, …or keep doing so.  And what happens when a greedy pig that’s eaten flying fruit flies up…

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SSCS 02: Installment 4 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 4 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 4 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Still, Mina grinned wickedly.  “Not afraid enough,” she sang.  “You need to bring the las– ” Just then, a bone-shivering, ear-shriveling shriek slashed the morning air.  Though perhaps the stone walls…

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