starting count: 2646
ending count: 4056
change: + 1410
beginning sentence:
"In any case, no Elemental Lord has come forward to admit any sort of association with Masterson or with Gene-Tech."
ending sentence:
That thought, as always, brought to mind her mother: her birth mother, more accurately, since it wasn't Teraisa Donnelly who had raised her.
darling:
Nikki Jeffries stopped on the stoop to tug on her leather gloves, squinting out across the sunlit lawn. It had snowed again the night before: not a howling Storm, but the almost magical gentle snowfall that coated everything in a soft white blanket, tucking in houses and cars with equal tenderness and sparkling in the morning sun. The Spirits that milled around on her front lawn drifted over the white, turning it various shades of emerald and jet and gold but not disturbing a single flake. Once, that would have bothered her. Now, the sight was a comfort.
ending count: 4056
change: + 1410
beginning sentence:
"In any case, no Elemental Lord has come forward to admit any sort of association with Masterson or with Gene-Tech."
ending sentence:
That thought, as always, brought to mind her mother: her birth mother, more accurately, since it wasn't Teraisa Donnelly who had raised her.
darling:
Nikki Jeffries stopped on the stoop to tug on her leather gloves, squinting out across the sunlit lawn. It had snowed again the night before: not a howling Storm, but the almost magical gentle snowfall that coated everything in a soft white blanket, tucking in houses and cars with equal tenderness and sparkling in the morning sun. The Spirits that milled around on her front lawn drifted over the white, turning it various shades of emerald and jet and gold but not disturbing a single flake. Once, that would have bothered her. Now, the sight was a comfort.
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