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Chapter 7: Proctor Dunn
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2026-10-31 06:27:17
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After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 8: Greyspire
"You can't buy a mountain," said Molly, "with a pearl necklace.""I know," I said. "I'm going to buy it with a guilty father."We were standing at the end of the long drive in the cold blue light of morning, with a donkey cart loaded with beans, barrels of salt and ten sacks of seed grain. Pip was riding inside my coat. Pudding the puppy had insisted on coming, and was riding on the cart, announcing every pebble in the road to anyone who would listen.It was Day 86.For two days, I had not been able to stop thinking about the vial. In my book, the rivers had turned black on Day 60, and the wells had gone bitter on Day 45, and the sea had begun to rise on Day 10. I had a calendar in my head, tidy and inevitable.Now the calendar was wrong. Whoever had changed it had not left me a note.I had made a decision. I could not afford to be wrong about the plot, so I would stop relying on it. I would prepare for the worst. Whatever happened, I wanted four things: a high, dry place, a source of
After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 7: Proctor Dunn
"Poisoned!" Daisy sobbed. "She poisoned him!"She stood in the middle of the great hall in her nightdress, her face wet with tears, the black snake limp and shivering in her cupped hands. Its scales were dull. Its golden eyes were half closed.My father stood before her in a hastily tied robe, Helen behind him. Half the household had been dragged out of bed. I stood at the foot of the stairs with a very quiet little bird on my shoulder, and watched all of them with a calm that made my father frown."Nora," he said. "Is this true?""I have never given Jax anything. He broke into my room and stole from me.""Stole?" Daisy's voice cracked. "Look what you did! He ate one of your wicked pills and now he's dying!""Then perhaps," I said, "he shouldn't have eaten something that wasn't his."A shocked silence."I demand an examination," Daisy said, trembling. "Let the Academy test those pills. Let them see what she's been doing to innocent creatures.""I agree," I said.Daisy stopped."I agre
After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 6: Day 89
Day 89.I wrote it at the top of a clean page, underlined it twice, and stared at it until the ink dried.It was barely dawn. I was sitting on the edge of a narrow bed in the old nursery, in a nightdress that was one size too thin for the cold, with a peacock chick curled up in the hollow of my knees and a notebook balanced on my lap. Nora's notebook. The one that had ended three days before with the words, I hope the snake finds me.I had torn out that page and burned it in the washstand. Nobody was going to hope for a snake in this room.Under Day 89, I wrote a list.SHELTER. Somewhere high, dry and hidden, with a water source.FOOD. Enough to feed a hundred people for a year.WATER. Clean. Filtered. Stored.MEDICINE. Anything Molly's family can brew.PEOPLE. The ones who will not abandon us.BEAST CORES. Currency, fuel, weapons.THE ARK. Find out who is really on the list.I looked at it for a long time.In my book, the Flood was a single, huge, spectacular set piece. Forty thousan
After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 5: The Pawn Ticket
I had written eighty-seven chapters of The Great flood apocalypse, and in none of them had a peacock ever spoken to anyone. "You are not Nora," the chick said again, in the narrow side chamber where Elder Hugh had dragged me away from the staring crowd. "Her soul is gone. I felt it leave. Who are you?" I sat down heavily on a stone bench with the chick cupped in my hands. My heart was pounding. I should say that, before this, I had managed to watch Daisy's choosing. It had been the last thing I saw before the elder hauled me out by the elbow, and I had seen it with only half my mind, but I would remember it for the rest of my life. When the crystal had gone white, the whole hall had turned to stare at me, and Daisy had stepped forward for her own turn, pale with fury. And a small black snake with a bandaged tail had slid out of its basket in the third row, flowed across the marble in a glossy ribbon, passed straight by Daisy's feet, and then, with perfect clarity, turned around
After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 4: Wells, You May Choose
"Wells. You may choose."I knew those words. I knew them because I had typed them myself, at two o'clock in the morning, in a different life though… I never expected to hear them out loud.The Temple of the Hundred Cradles was exactly as I had described it. Gold light poured through high windows. Pillars rose in rows, carved with vines and wings. Overhead, a vaulted ceiling was painted with tamers and beasts standing side by side, and a hundred young people in white ceremonial robes shuffled and whispered below it. I could smell incense, warm stone and straw, and under it all, the wild, musky heat of a hundred animals waiting to be chosen.I had spent three whole paragraphs on that ceiling. It had never occurred to me that it would be so high."Wells," said the old examiner again, with an impatient rustle of his scroll. "Do try to keep up, girl. We choose in order of rank, lowest first. You are lowest. That is why you are first. We have not got all day."Somebody giggled. It was a sof
After transmigrating into the flood apocalypse Chapter 3: Talking Animals
"Is she dead?""Don't be rude. She's breathing.""She was breathing yesterday too, look how that ended.""I think she’s waking up."I opened my eyes slowly, and found myself looking at a ceiling I did not recognize, and then at a very small round and fluffy puppy.The puppy was sitting on my chest. It was golden and white, no bigger than a loaf of bread, with enormous, serious brown eyes. It looked at me, tilted its head, and said, in a voice like a tiny, anxious aunt, "You look terrible."I screamed.The puppy yelped and tumbled backward off my chest. Something behind it squawked. Something else hissed. I sat bolt upright in a narrow wooden bed, my heart hammering, and the whole room came into focus at once.It was a small room with a slanted ceiling, painted a pale, chalky blue. There was a washstand, a wooden wardrobe, a round window that let in a stripe of morning light. And on every flat surface, there were animals.There was a grey kitten on the windowsill. A fat green lizard on
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