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    Skeleton Crew: Sleepy Tiger Stories
    Skeleton Crew: Sleepy Tiger Stories
    Skeleton Crew: Sleepy Tiger Stories
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    Skeleton Crew: Sleepy Tiger Stories

    By Grace Crandall

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    It might have gone smoothly, if not for a fit of pique, an early sunset, and a spooked goat.

     

    When Professor Amiratus--immortal, skeletal, and the kingdom's foremost expert on interdimensional magics--was called in to close a dark portal discovered in the royal forests, he had no reason to expect trouble.

     

    Now there's a creature with glowing eyes making threats of bodily harm, two royal guards with a death wish, and a kingdom in need of saving.

     

    Amiratus's worst nightmare has sprung to life before his eyes, and he's got a score to settle with it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Crandall
    Release dateFeb 15, 2021
    ISBN9781393091417
    Skeleton Crew: Sleepy Tiger Stories

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      Skeleton Crew - Grace Crandall

      Skeleton Crew

      Sleepy Tiger Stories

      Grace Crandall

      Published by Grace Crandall, 2021.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Skeleton Crew

      Skeleton Crew

      THERE ARE MANY WAYS to close a dark portal, but only one way to create one.

      To craft a portal, you’d need to have a few ingredients. Moonlight. Dragon scales. Unicorn mane. Something owned by your great-great grandparents, and a blade that had lasted ten years without ever cutting so much as a piece of paper. Some writing whose author had been forgotten, and one precious memory that you were willing to sacrifice to the cause.

      Once cast, a portal was roughly a meter wide, and perfectly circular. It had a sort of purple shimmer on the edges, and in the center, it was a black so deep and so dark that it seemed to suck the very light out of the world around you. Some records reported hearing strange sounds from the dark portal, and others reported seeing strange creatures. Eyewitness reports, though, were hard to come by, and usually incomplete. Most people who got close enough to a portal to write one up died in the process.

      Create Portal wasn’t really a difficult spell; but it was involved, and time-consuming, and the general consensus between scholars, magicians, and government officials was that it wasn’t likely to be used by any magician worth their salt.

      It’s a finnicky process, and it’s just as likely to kill you as anything. Seriously, Professor Amiratus said, clacking his teeth in a skeletal chuckle, and fluttering his phalanges in a dismissive gesture over his half-eaten food. Whoever would bother with something like that? If you want to get in contact with another realm of consciousness—summon a kitten, or something.

      He chuckled at his own joke, and glanced nervously between the two heavily armored royal guards. His hope that they had barged into his office and interrupted his lunch in order to question him about dark portals out of simple scholarly interest was swiftly diminishing. From their dark expressions, this was serious.

      Amirtatus

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